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Denmark, and other parts of the Continent, and also to 
Australia, the average consignments in 1897-99 amounting 
to over 218,000 cwts. anuually, valued at £211,400. 
Provisions of various unenumerated kinds, including pro- 
visions hermetically sealed, were exported to the amount of 
over £700,000 annually. 

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN 
THE UNITED STATES. 
According to information collected by the United States 
Department of Agriculture, there were, in 1899, 64 educational 
establishments known as “land grant” colleges, of which 61 
maintained courses in agriculture. The term “land grant”’ 
has reference to an endowment of land amounting in the 
aggregate to 9,359,241 acres, which, by an Act of Congress of 
July, 1862, was appropriated out of the public lands and dis- 
tributed amongst the different States for the endowment and 
maintenance of colleges “for the benefit of agriculture and 
the mechanic arts.” This endowment was further sup- 
plemented in 1890 by another Act, which places an annual 
sum, increasing until the year 1901, and equal to about 
£5,000 for each State or territory, at the disposal of the 
colleges. 
The aggregate value of the permanent funds and 
equipment of the land-grant colleges and universities in 1899 
was estimated to be as follows:—Land-grant fund of 
1862, £2,138,113; other land-grant funds, £300,329; other 
permanent funds, £3,008,790; land grant of 1862 still 
unsold, £846,427; farms and grounds owned by the 
institutions, 41,154,814; buildings, 43,335,266; apparatus, 
£407,471; machinery, £286,187 ; libraries, £386,446; miscel- 
laneous equipment, £416,185; total, £12,280,028. The 
income of these institutions in 1899, exclusive of the funds 
received from the United States for agricultural experiment 
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