STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1903.

Compiled by Miss M. T. SPETHMANN.

The following statistical statements relate to the institutions established under the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, most of which maintain courses of instruction in agriculture, and to the agricultural experiment stations, which, with a few exceptions, are organized under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, and are conducted as departments of the institutions receiving the benefits of the land-grant act of July 2, 1862. These statistics have been compiled in part from replies to a circular of inquiry sent out from the Office of Experiment Stations, and in part from the annual reports of the presidents of these institutions made on the schedules prescribed by the Commissioner of Education. Tables showing the annual disbursements on account of the acts of Congress of March 2, 1887, and August 30, 1890, prepared in the Departments of the Treasury and the Interior, 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.

Educational institutions receiving the benefits of the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, are now in operation in all the States and Territories except Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. The total number of these institutions is 65, of which 63 maintain courses of instruction in agriculture. The aggregate value of the permanent funds and equipment of the land-grant colleges and universities in 1903 is estimated to be as follows: Land-grant fund of 1862, $11,140,890.51; other land-grant funds, $2,849,293.49; other permanent funds, $14,926,747.49; land grant of 1862 still unsold, $4,292,460.26; farm and grounds owned by the institutions, $5,610,441.03; buildings, $21,246,159.88; apparatus, $2,379,742.28; machinery, $1,112,805.28; libraries, $2,114,802.60; live stock, $252,490.66; miscellaneous equipment, $3,852,629.77; total, $69,778,463.25. The income of these institutions in

1903, exclusive of the funds received from the United States for agricultural experiment stations ($719,999.50), was as follows: Interest on land grant of 1862, $674,174.77; interest on other land grants, $84,903.31; United States appropriation under act of 1890, $1,200,000; interest on endowment or regular appropriation, $278,409.25; State appropriation for current expenses, $2,469,848.44; State appropriation for buildings or other special purposes, $1,577,927.40; endowment, other than Federal or State grants, $602,802.41; tuition fees, $944,826.07; incidental fees, $294,492.95; miscellaneous, $1,120,993.80; total, $9,248,378.40. The value of the additions to the permanent endowment and equipment of these institutions in 1903 is estimated as follows: Permanent endowment, $626,916.56; buildings, $1,426,330.31; libraries, $135,312.46; apparatus, $104,247.94; machinery, $169,182.24; live stock, $51,140.96; miscellaneous, $230,552.91; total, $2,743,683.38.

The number of persons in the faculties of the colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts was as follows: For preparatory classes, 445; for collegiate and special classes, 2,024; total, 2,461. In the other departments the faculties aggregate 1,141, making a grand total of 3,602 persons in the faculties of the land-grant institutions. The students in 1903 were as follows: (1) By classes-preparatory, 8,801; collegiate classes, 19,161; short course or special, 7,999; post-graduate, 607; other departments, 16,760; total, 52,489. (2) By courses: Fouryear-agriculture, 3,146; horticulture, 539; household economy, 873; mechanical engineering, 4,475; civil engineering, 2,587; electrical engineering, 2,116; mining engineering, 955; chemical engineering, 188; architecture, 182. Shorter-agriculture, 5,505; dairying, 867; horticulture, 367; veterinary science, 811; military tactics, 16,316. The graduates in 1903 were 4,524, and since the organization of these institutions, 53,252. The average age of graduates in 1903 was 21 years and 10 months. The total number of volumes in the libraries was 1,837,461. The total number of acres of land granted to the States under the act of 1862 was 10,170,851, of which 1,007,994 are still unsold.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF STATIONS.

Agricultural experiment stations are now in operation under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, in all the States and Territories, and under special appropriation acts in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. In Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Hawaii, Missouri, Alabama, and Louisiana separate stations are maintained wholly or in part by State funds. A number of substations are also maintained in different States. Excluding the substations, the total number of stations in the United States is 60. Of these, 55 receive appropriations provided for by acts of Congress.

The total income of the stations maintained under the act of 1887 during 1903 was $1,427,237.73, of which $720,000 was received from the National Government, the remainder, $707,237.73, coming from the following sources: State governments, $431,262.41; individuals and communities, $10,660; fees for analyses of fertilizers, $99,864.23; sales from farm products, $105,128.02; miscellaneous, $60,323.07. In addition to this the Office of Experiment Stations had an appropriation of $161,000 for the past fiscal year, including $15,000 for the Alaska Experiment Stations, $12,000 for the Hawaii Experiment Station, $12,000 for the Porto Rico Experiment Station, $20,000 for nutrition investigations, and $65,000 for irrigation investigations. The value of additions to the equipment of the stations in 1903 is estimated as follows: Buildings, $135,581.16; libraries, $11.501.35; apparatus, $18,552.41; farm implements, $15,123.98; live stock, $22,427.82; miscellaneous, $33,183.89; total, $236,370.61.

The stations employ 757 persons in the work of administration and inquiry. The number of officers engaged in the different lines of work is as follows: Directors, 54; assistant and vice-directors, 19; special agents in charge, 3; chemists, 160; agriculturists, 54; agronomists, 27; animal husbandmen, 39; poultrymen, 7; horticulturists, 79; farm and garden foremen, 39; dairymen, 34; botanists, 56; plant pathologists, 4; entomologists, 50; zoologists, 6; veterinarians, 31; meteorologists, 10; biologists, 6; physicists, 6; geologists, 4; mycologists and bacteriologists, 23; irrigation engineers, 11; in charge of substations, 16; secretaries and treasurers, 27; librarians, 12; clerks and stenographers, 34. There are also 50 persons classified under the head of "Miscellaneous," including superintendents of grounds and buildings, apiarists, herdsmen, etc. Three hundred and seventy-five station officers do more or less teaching in the colleges with which the stations are connected. During the year the stations published 371 annual reports and bulletins which were supplied to over half a million addresses on the regular mailing lists. A larger number of stations than formerly supplemented their regular publications with more or less frequent issues of press bulletins and other special publications, and most of the stations report a large and constantly increasing correspondence with farmers on a wide variety of topics.

STATISTICS OF THE LAND-GRANT

Unless otherwise specified, the statistics reported in the tables are

TABLE 1.-Institutions established under the land

for the institutions as designated in the list given below:

grant act of July 2, 1862, and their courses of study.

an asterisk (*), maintain courses of instruction in agriculture.]

Collegiate courses of study (undergraduate).

General sci., agr., civil engin., elect. engin. (B.S.). Agr., hort., dairying (1 yr.), agr. (12 weeks).