STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND AGRICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1906. 



By Miss M. T. Spethmann. 



The folio-wing statistical statements relate to the institutions estab- 

 lished under the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, 

 most of which maintain courses of instruction in agriculture, and to 

 the agricultural experiment stations, which, with few exceptions, are 

 organized under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, and are con- 

 ducted as departments of the institutions receiving the benefits of the 

 land-grant act of July 2, 1862. These statistics have been compiled 

 in part from replies to a circular of inquiry sent out from the Office of 

 Experiment Stations, and in part from the annual reports of the presi- 

 dents of these institutions made on the schedules prescribed by the 

 Commissioner of Education. Tables showing the annual disburse- 

 ments on account of the acts of Congress of March 2, 1887, August 30, 

 1890, and March 16, 1906, prepared from figures furnished by the 

 Departments of the Treasury and the Interior, are also included. 

 Owing to the complex organization of many of the institutions, it is 

 impracticable to give exactly comparable statistics in all cases, and in 

 some instances the data furnished are incomplete. 



SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES. 



Educational institutions receiving the benefits of the acts of Con- 

 gress of July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, are now in operation in all 

 the States- and Territories except Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. 

 The total number of these institutions is 65, of which 63 maintain 

 courses of instruction in agriculture. The aggregate value of the 

 permanent funds and equipment of the land-grant colleges and uni- 

 versities in 1906 is estimated to be as follows : Land-grant fund of 1862, 

 $12,500,558.29; other land-grant funds, $3,988,068.60; other perma- 

 nent funds, $13,829,945.72; land grant of 1862 still unsold, $4,005,- 

 736.10; farms and grounds owned by the institutions, $7,873,237.68; 

 buildings, $30,322,457.04; apparatus, $2,432,339.88; machinery, $2,- 

 831,046.06; libraries, $2,819,614.26; live stock, $369,913.13; miscella- 

 neous equipment, $3,222,469.12; total, $84,195,385.88. The income of 

 these institutions in 1906, exclusive of the funds received from the 

 United States for agricultural experiment stations ($867,617.70), was 

 as follows: Interest on land-grant funds of 1862, $758,753.34; inter- 

 est on other land-grant funds, $106,185.17; United States appropria- 

 tion under act of 1890, $1,200,000; interest on endowment or regular 



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