STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND AGRICULTURAL 
EXPERIMENT STATIONS , ]m 
The following statistical statements relate to the institutions estab 
lished under the acts of Congress of J ulj 2, L862, and August 30, L890, 
most of which maintain courses of Instruction in agriculture, and bo 
the agricultural experiment stations, which, with a few execution-, arc 
organized under the act <>f Congress of March 2, 1887, and are con- 
ducted as departments of the institutions receiving the benefits of the 
land-grant act of July 2, L862. These statistics have been compiled in 
part from replies to a circular of inquiry sent out from the Office of 
eriment Station- and in part from the annual report- of the pres- 
idents of these institutions made on the schedules prescribed by the 
Commissioner of Education. Tables showing the animal disburse- 
ments on account of the acts of Congress of Match 2, 1 ss 7. and August 
30, 1890, prepared in the departments of the Treasury and the Inte- 
rior, are also included. Owing to the complex organization of many 
of the institutions, it is impracticable to give exactly comparable 
statistics in all cases, and in some instances the data furnished are 
incomplete. 
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES. 
wational institutions receiving the benefits of the acts of Con 
gress of .!nl\ 2, L862, and August 30, L890, are now in operation in 
all the States and Territories except Alaska. The total Dumber of 
these institutions is 66, of which •*.:; maintain courses <>f instruction in 
agriculture. II gate value of the permanent funds and equip 
m. nt of the land-grant colleges and universities in 1902 is estimated 
to be as follows: Land-rant fund of L862, $11,369,031.50; other land- 
grant funds, I other permanent funds, $16,354,87< 
land grant of L862 gtill unsold, $4,315,546.06; farm and grounds 
owned by the institutions, I -•'<: buildings, 
appaiati ,. 1 2 ; machine] \ . | >: libra! 
miscellaneous equipment, 'i L60; I 
The income of these institutions in L902, exclusive of the fund- 
