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exhibits for fairs in the State and also a number of permanent 

 exhibits to be displayed in public places. Through the efforts of this 

 college nature study is now being taught in all the training schools 

 for teachers, and all the high schools of the State will offer courses in 

 agriculture. The excursions to the college and station brought in 

 about 1,700 farmers this year. The details of these excursions were 

 all arranged by the director of the station, who obtained a merely 

 nominal fare on the railroads and even planned the running of the 

 excursion trains. 



In providing for maintenance and new buildings at the agricultural 

 colleges, the various State legislatures meeting during the past year 

 have been more than usually liberal. At the last session of the Kan- 

 sas legislature over $200,000 was appropriated to the State Agricultural 

 College for new buildings and other imi)rovements and maintenance. 

 Of this sum, $70,000 will be expended in the erection of anew physics 

 and chemistry building, and 110,000 for additions to the library. 

 The appropriations of the Minnesota legislature for its college of agri- 

 culture aggregate this year over 190,000, of which $25, 000 will be used 

 for a new chemical building, $25,000 for a new veterinary building, 

 $12,000 for additions to the women's dormitory, and $7,500 for instruc- 

 tion and experiments in curing meat. Colorado has provided $40,000 

 for the erection of a new irrigation engineering building. The Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College has recently completed a women's building 

 costing $95,000, a dairy building costing $15,000, a barn costing $4,000, 

 and the State legislature at its last session provided for an annual 

 levy of one-tenth mill on the taxable property of the State, which 

 will yield $100,000 per annum for the support of the agricultural col- 

 lege, experiment station, substations, and farmers' institutes. In 

 North Dakota a levy of one-fifth mill on the taxable property of the 

 State will provide additional funds for the maintenance of the agi'i- 

 cultural college. A special appropriation of $50,000 for buildings has 

 also been made by the legislature. The College of Agriculture of the 

 University of California has at its disposal $250,000 per annum for 

 two years. The legislature of Indiana has provided $60,000 for a new 

 agricultural building at Purdue University and $10,000 a year for two 

 years for maintenance and equipment of the same. The College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the University of Missouri has been 

 provided by the Missouri legislature with $40,000 for a dairy and live- 

 stock building, $40,000 for a horticultural building and equipment, 

 and other minor appropriations, making a total of over $100,000 for 

 the agricultural work of the university. At the New Hampshire Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts $30,000 j)rovided by the legis- 

 lature will be expended in the erection of an agricultural building. 

 The Oklahoma assemblj^ has levied taxes to raise $46,000 for the 

 construction of an engineering building and for additions to the library 

 at the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. Washington 

 Agricultural College has an appropriation this year of nearly $120,000; 

 $25,000 for a chemical building, $10,000 for an armory, nearly $25,000 

 for other improvements, and $60,000 for maintenance. The South 

 Dakota Agricultural College has an appropriation of $40,000 for an 

 engineering and physics building and $10,000 for a building for work 

 in plant breeding. The University of Idaho has received $50,000 

 for a science hall and girls' dormitorj'. In Wyoming the legislature 

 gave the State university $36,000 for a science building. This insti- 

 tution is also receiving $15,000 a year from the rent of its lands. In 

 Montana a fund of $16,000 has accumulated from the rent of lands 

 belonging to the agricultural college. 



