The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-12-11

given TO the States for this purpose.
This land has now nearly all been
sold and the invested endowment is
$12,O49, GIG, yielding an average an
nual income, which alone can be ex-
pended, of $721, 492, an average Of
$15,031 for the land-grant colleges in
each of the 4S States and Territories.
In 1890 Congress, in the second
Morrill, Act, supplemented this en-
dowment by the appropriation of $685.
600 for each State and Territory, thus
providing each with the present aver
oge of $40,031 per annum from the
Federal Treasury, an annual total OF
1921, 492.
Under the provision of the acts
named, each State was required to
purchase lands and erect buildings
from State funds. Lands, buildings,
and equipments valued at $45 ,836,731,
or an average of $954,992, have thus
been provided by the respective
States and Territories.
The State colleges have become
very useful and the States have
added materially to their support.
The total current expense funds thus
supplied by the States aggregated for
the year 1905 the sum of $3,04S,422,
an average of about $65,000 for each
State.
The sum supplied by the Federal
Government and the sum supplied by
the States for current expense or
maintenance funds aggregated $4,969,-
914. an average of $103,540 for each
State. Thus the Federal Govern
ment supplies 1876 per cent and the
States ola per cent of the support of t
these institutions.
But in 1905 the colleges also re- :
ceived for buildings and other pur- t
poses from the States and other local {
sources (including fees) a total of {
$6,700,28O so that in reality the |
States contributed $9,74S, 7O2, which l
is nearly SO per cent of the total in {
ccme for educational purposes of the |
land-grant colleges.
In 1887 Congress followed up it's a
initiative of inducing the States to t
establish colleges for instruction in /
agriculture and the mechanic arts a
by taking the initiative in estab- 2
fishing a system of state agricultural S
experiment stations. That act appro- r
PIRATES annually to each State the
sum of $4,000 for Investigations in h
agriculture. Under the Adams Act of /
1906 each State experiment station =
will soon receive from the Federal .
Government an additional sum of $15- =
900, making total of 100000 annual +
ly. The States supplement this sum 6
with 540,467 of State funds, or SILL +
$50 per State. .
Another movement has grown out +
Of the establishment OF agricultural /
colleges. Beginning in Minnesota in .
1888 the States took the initiative in p
beginning the establishment Of agri- .
cultural high schools or secondary r
schools devoted to education in farm +
ing and in home making for the young +
people of the farm The first of these l
agricultural high schools were estab- Q
lished on the grounds of the State
colleges, taking the place of prepar- ;
atory courses therefore found neces-
sary in agricultural and other col .
leges for the farm youth who came !,
from the irregular work of the rural :
schools. In more recent years the =
pronounced practical success of these .
secondary agricultural high schools
has led to the establishment of a g
number of branch agricultural high =
schools. The States have established -
these schools, respectively, as fol- '
lows. Districts of several counties. d
2; Nebraska, / North Da-
kota, 1; South Dakota, l.; Oklahoma,
l. Maine, 1; Alabama, 81 Georgia, II; ;
New York, l; Rhode Island, / Wash
ington, 1 a total of 30.
District of one county: Wisconsin,
2; Kansas L; Tennessee, 1; Maryland :
1, total of 5. S
1t seems probable that all States
will follow Alabama ana Georgia and
establish systems of agricultural high !,
schools, as each city has established /
public high schools, thus providing
secondary schools for farmers as well G
as for city pupils.
About the beginning of the new
century a movement was begun in !
Chic, Indiana, and other States to
the one-room rural schools :
into larger and more efficient units.
These schools are provided with vans
in which to haul the pupils to and /,
from a large graded school in dis
trict now containing several of the
little districts or covering an area of
about Is square miles. There are now