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builclinfjs or for olhor special purposes, $3,055,712.77; income from 

 endowment, other than federal or state oraiits, $783,711). 1>1; tuition 

 fees, $l,13i>,l)lC).(;8; incidental fees, $1,020,052.1!); miscellaneous, 

 $2,325,5t)8.33 ; total, $18,082,853.55. The value of the additions to 

 the permanent endowment and equipment of those institutions in 

 1S)0!) is estimated as follows: Permanent endowment, $1,144,013.00; 

 buildings, $3,411,201.44; libraries, $307.807.4('.; apparatus, $303,238.04; 

 machinery, $103,013; live stock, $80,454.22; miscellaneous, $038,- 

 518.44; total, $0,055,140.80. 



The number of persons in the faculties of the colleges of agriculture 

 and mechanic arts was as follows: For preparatory classes, 503; for 

 collegiate and special classes, 3,204; total, counting none twice, 3,004. 

 In the other departments the faculties aggregated 2.001, making a 

 grand total of 5,755 persons in the faculties of the land-grant institu- 

 tions. 



The students in 1000 in the colleges for white persons were as fol- 

 lows: (1) By classes — preparatory, 0,000; collegiate, 27,570; short 

 course or special, 13,000; postgraduate, 1,107; other departments, 

 21,000; total, counting none twice, 07,227. (2) By courses: Four- 

 year — agriculture, 4,000; horticulture, 158; forestry, 223; veterinary 

 science, 215; household econoni}', 1,443; engineering, 17,802. Shorter 

 than four years — mechanic arts, 841; agriculture, 0,135; horticulture. 

 233; forestiy, 81; dairying, 010; veterinary science, 510; household 

 economy, 738; teachers' courses in agriculture, 107 (four-year, 144; 

 three-year, 30; two-year, 14) ; summer schools of agriculture for 

 teachers, 1,005; military tactics, 20,477. 



The students in colleges and schools for colored persons were a^ 

 follows: (1) By classes — preparatory, 5,100; collegiate, 051; short 

 or sjDecial, 220; other departments, 477; total, 0,580. (2) By courses — 

 agriculture, 1,442; industrial courses for boys, 2,331; industrial 

 courses for girls, 4,077; military tactics, 1,078. 



The graduates in 1000 were 0,353, and since the organization of 

 these institutions, 84,740. The average age of graduates in 1000 

 was 22 years and 2 months. The total number of volumes in the 

 libraries was 2,327,773, and the total number of pamphlets, 050,255. 

 The total number of acres of land granted to the States under the 

 act of 1802 was 10,570,842, of which 1,020,847 are still unsold. 



SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF THE STATIONS. 



Agricultural experiment stations are now in operation under the 

 acts of Congress of March 2, 1887, and March 10, 1000, in all the 

 States and Territories, and under special appropriation acts in Alaska, 

 Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam. 



In Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, 

 New York, North Carolina, and Virginia separate stations are main- 

 tained wholly or in part by state funds. A number of substations 



