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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN THE 
UNITED STATES HAVING COURSES IN AGRICULTURE.* 
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, of which 63 maintain courses of instruction in 
agriculture. In 21 states the agricultural colleges are departments of 
the state universities. In 15 states and territories separate institutions 
having courses in agriculture are maintatined 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 
59 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 ex- 
tension. 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 experiment stations in 1907 was 6,243; the number of students 
in these colleges, 66,193; the number of students (white) in the four-year 
college courses in agriculture, 3,738; in short and special courses, 5,334. 
There were also 1,659 students in agriculture m the separate institutions 
for negroes. With a few exceptions, each of these colleges offers free 
tuition to residents of the state in which it is located. In the excepted 
cases scholarships are open to promising and energetic students; and, 
in all, opportunities 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. 
state or 
Territory 
Name of Institution 
Location 
President 
Alabama _ 
Alabama Polytechnic Institute 
Agricultural School of the 
Tuskegee Normal and Indus 
trial Institute 
Auburn 
Tuskegee Insti.- 
Normal . 
C. C. Thach 
B. T. Washington 
Agricultural and Mechanical 
College for Negroes 
W. H. Councill 
Arizona _ 
TTTiivpr<?itv nf Ari^nm 
Tucson 
K. C. Babcock 
Arkansas — 
California _. 
Colorado _.. 
University of Arkansas 
fBraneh Normal College 
University of California 
The State Agricultural College 
of Colorado 
Fayetteville 
Pine Bluff 
Berkeley 
Fort Collins 
Storrs 
J. N. Tillman 
Isaac Fisher 
B. I. Wheeler 
B. 0. Aylesworth 
Connecticut 
Connecticut Agricultural Col- 
lege - 
R. W. Stimson 
Delaware 
Delaware College 
State College for Colored Stu- 
dents 
G. A. Harter 
W. C. Jason 
Florida 
University of the State of 
Florida 
Gainesville 
Tallahassee 
Andrew Sledd 
Florida State Normal and In- 
dustrial School — _ 
N. B. Young 
* Including only institutions established under the land grant act of July 2, 
1862. 
tPoes not maintain courses in agriculture. 
