The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-07
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Annual Report of President Tanner
to the Government.


Following is the report of the president
of the Agricultural college to the secre..
tary of the interior and the secretary of
agriculture. as required by act of con-
gress of Aug. 80, 1890, in aid of colleges of
agriculture and the. mechanic arts:
|. Condition of the Institution for the
Year Ended June 30, 1898, Especially.
% Changes in course or methods OF IN
structlon If of sufficient Importance to
warrant mention; ~, purpose, structural
character and cost Of new buildings or adj
ditions to buildings, and, 80, provision,
study of electricity and compressed air as
secondary motive powers, and of cleo
tricity as an element IN nature
The session ended June Is was a sue
cessful one. The registration of students
was 447, of an average age of 1876 years:
Five students were graduated from the
four years courses with the degree of
bachelor of science,I and one from a two
years course.
A number of our istudents enlisted for
the war with Spain when volunteers were
called for. Most OF these. having been
we'll drilled in military science and tao
tics, secured commissioned offices in their
regiments. The professor of military sci
ence and tactics, CAPTAIN S. w. Dun
ed to his regiment, but the military drill
was continued for the balance of the year
by the ranking officers of the cadets:
The new manual training courses have
been literally patronized during the year,
and the students acquired more skill in
forge and carpentry work and in cooking
and sewing than was possible under the
previous arrangement of courses.
The sum of the expenditures during the
year for college and station was $56, 355. 10
against S65,l35.52 for. the previous year.
Considerable repairing work has been
done on the main building, including re-
painting of the outside woodwork Much
needed improvements have been made
on the college campus.
| The pXD9rimpQt station has issued dur
J ing the wear seven bulletins and an an
nual report. as follows: Bulletin No. 81,
Chemical Composition of Utah Soils,
Cache and SanDete Counties No 90,
/ Utah Sugar Bets; No: 81, Cattle
Feeding; No. So Orchard Pests; No.
/ Sc. "Field Experiments With Wheat, Oats
! and Barley; No. 81. "By-products of the
Dairy" and Eighth Annual Report
! In addition to the above publications,
] the college issued the first annual report
| of 167 pages.
II.-Receipts For and During the Year
Ended June 3d. 1898:
State Aid
Income from endowment granted
Appropriation for current e :t-' -
other special purposes -. 1000 90
| Federal Aid
Income from land grant act of
Additional lie endowment act of Aug Aug: 800
For Experiment. stations, act of A''OOO :"
March 2, 1851. 49,. .......... Il. 900 90
Fees and all other sources. .. 6,332 rs
Total. ........... 49,. 80. $50, $50 Is
Year Ended June 30, 1898. (Not N Nec tase
sarily a Balance Sheet as Compared
With Division II Above):
Instruction in the subjects speci-
in6 in -ao 1 ont Of hrInr
lnStruction in all other subjects,
if any. not mentioned in ques-
ton ! of this series. ............ ........
Administrative expenses ~(presi-
dents, secretary's, treasureTs,
librarians salary, clerical SER
vice. fuel. light, etc.). .. 15,947 90
/ Experiment station. 49,. -. Is, $50 q
Total. ............ .s56 $50 il
Value of all buildings, s145.0OOOO; of 9TH
! err equipment, $50,00000 Total number Of
acres, los; acres under cultivation 1903:
acres used for experiments, So. Value of
| farm lands. S26, $4,000 Number of bound
volumes, June 30, 1885, 500; pamphlets,
v:;--Faculty During the Year Ended June
go, 1898:
College of Agricultural and Mechani-
cal Arts Male. Female
Collegiate and special classes. II
IOldi, counting none twice. II
Number of STAFF of experiment station. S
VI.-Students During the Year Ended
June 30, 1898:
College of Agricultural and Mechani.
-, cal Arts Male. Female
i Collegiate and special classes. .103 81
Post graduate courses ...... 1
Tote cosnting none twice. .31s 1874
Number of students that pursued
courses in agriculture, 0; mechanical en-
gnn~er ag, o; civil engineering, 3; electri
architecture. O.; household economy (
veterinary science, o; military science ant
tactics. 203
notwithstanding military science ant
tactics, the above classification apple:
only to junior and senior students The
first two years in all courses being The
same).
What degree. and how many of eaof
Kind, We're conferred in 1S97-'9S?
On men, three. B. S.
On women. two, B. s.
What and how many honorary degree:
We're conferred in 1S97-'9S? None.
(Signed) j. M. TANNER
1000 President.