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There is also the Whiting Street fund of $1,000, without 

 conditions. 



The Grinnell prize fund was a gift of $1,000 by Ex-Gov. 

 Wm. Claflin, and called the Grinnell fund, in honor of his 

 friend. The income is appropriated for two prizes, to be 

 given each year to the two members of the graduating class 

 who pass the best examinations in agriculture. 



There is also the State scholarship fund of $10,000. This 

 sum was appropriated by the Legislature in 188G, and is 

 paid to the college treasurer in quarterly payments. 



The Morrill fund, United States grant, commenced in 

 1890, at $15,000, and increased each year $1,000, till the 

 limit of $25,000 is reached, when it remains fixed at that 

 sum. Two-thirds of this goes to the college and one-third 

 to the Institute of Technology. 



T. O. H. P. Burnham, late of Boston, made a bequest of 

 $5,000 to the college, without conditions. The trustees 

 have voted to keep the fund intact, and use the income for 

 such purposes as they believe to be for the best interest of 

 the college. 



The College Fat m. 



After the college was located at Amherst a farm was pur- 

 chased, consisting of three hundred and eighty-three and a 

 half acres, from six separate estates. Of this, forty-eight 

 acres have been set apart for the use of the Hatch Experi- 

 ment Station and about seventy-five acres for the botanic 

 and horticultural department, the balance being used and 

 designated as "the farm proper." The entire amount of 

 land under cultivation will, from year to year, perhaps 

 average one hundred and twenty-five acres. 



Experiment SI a I ions. 



There were originally situated on the college grounds two 

 experiment stations : one was the Massachusetts State Ex- 

 periment Station, which had no connection with the college, 

 but was a separate institution, though it leased a sufficient 

 quantity of land (forty-eight acres) belonging to the college 

 farm for the purposes of its proper work and accommoda- 



