320 



fiscal year June 30, 1912: Teachers in the prepara- 

 tory classes, including the secondary schools of agricul- 

 ture, 626; professors in the collegiate classes of agri- 

 culture and the mechanic arts, and in all other forms 

 of instruction in these colleges, 3,569; making a total 

 number of teachers of 3,835. In addition to these 

 there were 161 instructors giving full time and 525 

 giving part time to agricultural-extension work; 1,583 

 officers of experiment stations; and 2,705 persons in 

 the faculties of other colleges or departments not de- 

 voted to agriculture; making a total of 7,192 teachers 

 and instructors in the land-grant institutions. 



In like manner for the colored institutions there was 

 a grand total of 474 persons in the teaching corps. 



The number of students in the colleges for white 

 persons in actual attendance at the institutions was 

 53,764. There were also enrolled in correspondence 

 courses 33,149 ; in extension courses, not including 

 farmers' institutes, 106,516; and in all other depart- 

 ments of the institutions, 32,685. Thus the total num- 

 ber of white students receiving instruction from these 

 institutions during the year ended June 30, 1912, was 

 242,954. 



The total number enrolled in schools for colored per- 

 sons was 8,495. 



The number of graduates from the land-grant insti- 

 tutions for white students during the year ended June 

 30, 1912, was 8,370, distributed as follows: Agricul- 

 ture, 1,200 ; mechanic arts, 2,260 ; home economics, 

 427; all other courses, 4,494. The total number of 

 graduates since the institutions were founded amounts 

 to 103,736. 



In the schools for colored persons the total number 

 of graduates for the year ended June 30, 1912, was 



