838 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES HAVING COURSES IN AGRICULTURE. a* 



College instruction in agriculture is given in the colleges and universi- 

 ties receiving the benefits of the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, and 

 August 30, 1890, which are now in operation in all the States and Terri- 

 tories, except Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. The total number of these 

 institutions is 65, ef which 63 maintain courses of instruction in agri- 

 culture. In 21 States the agricultural colleges are departments of the 

 State universities. In 15 States and Territories separate institutions hav- 

 ing courses in agriculture are maintained for the colored race. All of the 

 agricultural colleges for white persons and several of those for negroes 

 offer four-year courses in agriculture and its related sciences leading to 

 bachelors' degrees, and many provide for graduate study. About 45 of 

 these institutions also provide special, short, and correspondence courses 

 in the different branches of agriculture, including agronomy, horticulture, 

 animal husbandry, poultry raising, cheese making, dairying, sugar making, 

 rural engineering, farm mechanics, and other technical subjects. The 

 officers of the agricultural colleges engage quite largely in conducting 

 farmers' institutes and various other forms of college extension. The 

 agricultural experiment stations with very few exceptions are departments 

 of the agricultural colleges. The total number of persons engaged in the 

 work of education and research in the land-grant colleges and the experi- 

 ment stations in 1905 was 5,406 r the number of students in these colleges, 

 59,812; the number of students (white) in the four-year college courses 

 in agriculture, 2,638; in short and special courses, 3,885. There were 

 also 1,624 students in agriculture in the separate institutions for negroes. 

 With a few exceptions each of these colleges offers free tuition to resi- 

 dents of the State in which it is located. In the excepted cases scholar- 

 ships are open to promising and energetic students; and, in all, oppor- 

 tunities are found for some to earn part of their expenses by their own 

 labor. The expenses are from $125 to $300 for the school year. 



a Including only institutions established under the land-grant act of July 2, 1862. 

 ♦Data following taken from bulletin published by the United States Department 

 of Agriculture. 



