EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XVI. February, 1905. No. -6. 



The statistics relating to the students in agriculture at the agricul- 

 tural colleges of this country permit of some interesting deductions as 

 to the attendance and the teaching force. These statistics have just 

 been compiled by this Office from returns made by the colleges to the 

 Bureau of Education. 



Forty-four institutions report a total enrollment of 2,904 students 

 in agriculture and horticulture. This number includes only those 

 taking these subjects in the collegiate course. It does not include the 

 short-course students, who numbered last year over six thousand, or 

 the students in agriculture in the preparatory or high school courses. 

 Michigan reports 148 agricultural students, Illinois 160, Massachu- 

 setts 181, Kansas 198, Missouri 200, South Carolina 232, Mississippi 

 271', and Iowa 357. Twenty-eight colleges report less than fifty stu- 

 dents in these subjects, twenty less than twent} r -five students, and 

 eleven colleges ten students or under. 



The method of classifying the students at various institutions does 

 not make the figures entirely comparable, the requirement at several 

 colleges that all students take agriculture during the first year or two 

 making the apparent number of students in that course relatively 

 large. The grade of instruction at the different institutions also varies 

 considerably. However, these figures are the best obtainable under 

 the circumstances, and are taken as reported by the various institutions. 



The numbers of instructors in agriculture and horticulture in the 

 different colleges show, as might be expected, very wide variation. 

 This enumeration has been confined merely to the instructors in the 

 teaching departments of agriculture and horticulture (not the college 

 of agriculture), and includes the teachers in such branches as agron- 

 omy, animal industry, dairying, soils, and forestry. Instructors in 

 agricultual cheniistn 7 , agricultural botany, and other sciences related 

 to agriculture are not included in this statement, nor are the emeritus 

 professors, the idea being to get at the provision made in the various 

 institutions for the teaching of the agricultural and horticultural 

 branches themselves. 



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