370 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES IN UNITED STATES. 
stations, was as follows :—Interest on land-grant of 1862, 
£130,140; interest on other funds, £135,805; United States 
appropriation under Act of 1890, £233,496; State appropria- 
tion (annual or regular), £349,903; State appropriation 
(occasional), £126,746; tuition fees, £121,030; incidental 
fees, £36,947; miscellaneous, £114,690; total 41,248,757. 
The value of the additions to the permanent endowment and 
equipment of these institutions in 189g is estimated as follows : 
-—Permanent endowment, £294,026; buildings, £94,174; 
library, £24,519; apparatus, -425,188; machinery, £24,028; 
miscellaneous, £30,805; total, £492,740. The number of 
persons in the faculties of the colleges of agriculture and 
mechanic arts amounted to 1,984. Inthe other departments, 
the faculties aggregate 1,015, making a grand total of 2,999 
persons in the faculties of the land-grant institutions. The 
students in 1899 numbered 33,956. Of these the numbers 
taking courses were—agriculture, 4,407; mechanical engi- 
neering, 3,355; civil engineering, 1,463 ; mining and electrical 
engineering, 2,038; architecture, 410; household economy, 
1,573; veterinary science, 646; military tactics, 10,416. 
The graduates in 1899 were 2,232, and since the organisation 
of these institutions, 39,084. The average age of graduates 
in 1899 was twenty-two years two months. The total number 
of volumes in the libraries was 1,163,845. Of the land 
granted tothe State under the Act of 1862 985,833 acres 
remain unsold. 
Agricultural experiment stations are now in operation 
under the Act of Congress of March 2nd, 1887, in all the 
States and Territories. Agricultural experiments have been 
begun in Alaska with the aid of national funds, and an 
experiment station is in operation in Hawaii under private 
auspices. In each of the States of Alabama, Connecticut, 
New Jersey, and New York a separate station is maintained 
wholly or in part by State funds: and in Louisiana a 
station for sugar experiments is maintained partly by funds 
contributed by sugar-planters. Excluding the branch stations 
established in the several States, the total number of stations 
in the United States is 54. Of these, 52 received the appro- 
priation provided for in the Act of Congress above-men- 
