702 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



institutions the faculties aggregated 791, making a grand total of 2,311 

 persons in the faculties of the land-grant institutions. 



The students in 1S97 numbered 28,885. Of these, 3,930 were in agri- 

 culture, 2,441 in mechanical engineering, 1,375 in civil engineering, 

 1,100 in electrical engineering, 575 in mining engineering, 393 in archi- 

 tecture, 1,051 in household economy, 354 in veterinary science, aud 

 8,295 in military tactics. The graduates of these institutions in 1897 

 numbered 1,087, and since the organization of these institutions 25,737. 

 The average age of graduates in 1897 was 21.9 years. 



All of the States and Territories now have agricultural experiment 

 stations receiving the benefits of the Hatch Act. Alaska alone has no 

 experiment station, but a preliminary investigation regarding the feasi- 

 bility of conducting agricultural experiments in Alaska was made by 

 this Department the past year, and funds have been appropriated by 

 Congress for inaugurating experiments there the coming season. In 

 four of the States separate stations are maintained wholly or in part by 

 State funds, and in Louisiana a station for sugar experiments is main- 

 tained partly by funds contributed by sugar planters. Excluding the 

 branch stations, there are 54 stations, 52 of which receive the appro- 

 priation provided by the Hatch Act. 



The total income of the stations during 1897 was $1,129,832.99, of 

 which $719,993.47 was received from the National Government, the 

 remaining $409,839.52 coming from the following sources: State gov- 

 ernments, $287,170.35; individuals and communities, $5,553.88; fees 

 for analyses of fertilizers, $37,205.20 ; sales of farm products, $04,437.83 ; 

 and miscellaneous, $10,900.20. In addition to this, the Office of Exper- 

 iment Stations had an appropriation of $35,000 for the past fiscal 

 year, including $5,000 for the Alaskan investigation. The value of 

 additions to equipment of the stations in 1897 is estimated as follows: 

 Buildings, $74,830.99; libraries, $12,993.25; apparatus, $21,149.73; farm 

 implements, $13,178.25; live stock, $14,733.07; miscellaneous, $7,714.08; 

 total, $143,599.38. 



The stations employ 028 persons in the work of administration aud 

 research. These are classified as follows : Directors, 07 ; chemists, 134; 

 agriculturists, 06 ; horticulturists, 71; farm foremen, 38; dairymen, 19; 

 botanists, 47; entomologists, 48; veterinarians, 30; meteorologists, 18; 

 biologists, 8; physicists, 9; geologists, 0; mycologists and bacteriolo- 

 gists, 21; irrigation engineers, 0; in charge of substations, 11; secre- 

 taries and treasurers, 70; librarians, 9; and clerks, 38. There are also 

 30 persons classified under the head of "miscellaneous," including 

 superintendents of gardens, grounds, and buildings, apiarists, herds- 

 men, etc. Two hundred and eighty-five station officers do more or less 

 teaching in the colleges with which the stations are connected. 



In 1897 the stations published 54 annual reports and 324 bulletins. 

 Aside from these, a number of the stations issued press bulletins, which 

 were widely reproduced in the agricultural and county papers. The 

 station mailing lists now aggregate over a half million names. 



