EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. X. No. 11. 



Educational institutions receiving the benefits of the acts of Cong] ess 

 of July 1, 1862, and August 30, 1890, are now in operation in all the 

 States and Territories except Alaska. The total number of these insti- 

 tutions is G4, of which 01 maintain courses of instruction in agriculture. 

 The aggregate value of the permanent funds and equipment of the 

 land-grant colleges and universities in 1898 is estimated to be as 

 follows: Land-grant fund of 1862, $10,170,549.99; other land-grant 

 funds, $1,204,234.44; other permanent funds, $11,816,258.16; land grant 

 of 1862 still unsold, $3,838,219.48; farms and grounds owned by 

 the institutions, $6,046,500.16; buildings, $15,185,476.95; apparatus, 

 $1,916,227.85; machinery, $1,383,137.14; libraries, $1,634,190.25; mis- 

 cellaneous equipment, $1,765,243.19; total, $53,632,852.25. The income 

 of these institutions in 1898, exclusive of the funds received from the 

 United States for agricultural experiment stations ($720,000), "was as 

 follows: Interest on land grant of 1862, $645,546.28; interest on other 

 funds, $578,067.38; United States appropriation under act of 1890, 

 $1,108,610.38; State appropriation (annual or regular), $1,827,924.51; 

 State appropriation (occasional), $533,794.98; tuition fees, $480,847.32; 

 incidental fees, $140,458.72; miscellaneous, $679,130.93; total, $6,008,- 

 379.20. The value of the additions to the permanent endowment 

 and equipment of these institutions in 1898 is estimated as follows: 

 Permanent endowment, $1,424,277.64; buildings, $851,481.75; library, 

 $105,661.11; apparatus, $132,111.90; machinery, $123,477.0:5; miscella- 

 neous, $167,336.53; total, $2,796,3 J0.97. The number of persons in the 

 faculties of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts were as follows : 

 For preparatory classes, 254; for collegiate and special classes, 1,564; 

 total, 1,722. In the other departments the faculties aggregated 889, 

 making a grand total of 2,611 persons in the faculties of the land-giant 

 institutions. The students in 1898 were as follows: (1) By classes — 

 preparatory, 6,593; freshmen, 6,010; sophomores, 4,202; juniors, 3,216; 

 seniors, 2,506; special, 4,526; post graduate, 878; total, 31,658. (2) By 

 courses — agriculture, 4,181; mechanical engineering, 2,797; civil engi- 

 neering, 1,504; electrical engineering, 1,698; mining engineering, 554; 

 architecture, 411; household economy, 1,298; veterinary science, 419; 

 military tactics, 8,952. The graduates in 1898 were 2,328, and since the 

 organization of these institutions 34,168. The average age of graduates 

 in 1898 was 22.1 years. The total number of volumes in the libraries 

 was 1,221,226. The total number of acres of land granted to the States 

 under the act of 1862 was 9,559,241, of which 1,241,686 are still unsold. 



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