The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-12
GREAT ADvANCE|N
LAST FEW YEARS
Agricultural Education in This
Country Reaches Enviable
Position.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch !

Especial to The Times Dispatch
Washington. March l1.-Agricul-
| tural education has made enormous
strides during the last few wears, nc
cordinG 10 interesting figures and data
prepared by a. c. True and Dick J.
crosby, of tho Department. Of Agri
culture. Describing what has. beer
done. they said to-day:
The American system OF agricul.
turhl education includes n number OF |
. different classes of institutions which |
taken together provide all grades Of
instruction In agriculture from gradu-
ate courses leading to the Doctors do.
gree 10 nature study courses in this
Kindergarten and the primary school
Ihese institutions may be considered
under TOUR general heads: (i) Denart-
nent OF original research and Srad,-
ate study in agriculture, (2) agricul-
! 'ural colleges. ca secondary schools
OF aErtculture. and (D elementary
schools Tho secondary and Gle
mcntary instruction in agriculture IL
Of comparatively recent develop.
ment, but It is becoming an impor-
tant factor In American education.
The graduate and collegiate courses
on the other hand. are we'll established
and take rank with the best aEr,-
! cultural courses In the much older
| universities and colleges Of Europe.
There are now In the United states
siXty-seven agricultural colleges, or
Eanized under the acts OF Congress
OF July ., 1862: August 80, 1890. and
March 4, 1907. giving government aid
70 colleges for the benefit OF agricul.
tnrc and mechanical arts. In sixteen
States separate Institutions arc main.
tanned Tor white and colored students
! ana In fifteen of these courses OF
agriculture arc maintained The col.
ieses OF agriculture may be divided
into three classes. determined by the
difference in their organizations U)
colleges offering only agricultural
courses; CD colleges Offering addi-
tional courses, especially those in me-
chanic arts; and (oI colleges Of aCri-
culture connected with universities
The only purely agriculture college
IN the United States Is that in Massa-
chusetts Agricultural and mechani-
cal colleges are maintained in Ala.
bama, Colorado. Connecticut, Delaware.
Hawaii, Iowa kansas Maryland
Michigan, Mississippi. Montana. New
! Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico.
North Carolina, North Dakota, Okla
homa, Oregon. Pennsylvania Rhode
Island. South Carolina, South Dakota,
| IeSas. Ctan, Virginia and Washing
| ton.
Separate institutions Of this class
FOR colored students (ncluding depart-
ments OF universities located apart
from the other colleges OF those uni
vcrsities) are maintained in Alabama
Arkansas, Delaware, Florida Georgia
kentucky. Louisiana, Maryland, aIis.
sissippi. Missouri, North Carolina
| Oklahoma, South Carolina Texas VIZ.
einin and West Virginia In all OF
| these institutions excep, that in Al
| Kansas courses In agriculture are CON
| Quoted. but for the most part the in
/ struction is confined to courses below
| the college grade a similar institu.
| ton maintained by the State and pri-
| Fate funds is tho well-known Tuske.
| gee Normal and Industrial Instttute
| In Alabama
Colleges Of agriculture Cor equivalent
scnoois or departments) in universities
are are >, maintained 1,, with the aid OF ma
uonal funds. In Arizona. Arkansas
California, Florida. Georgia, Idaho.
Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky, Louisiana.
M Ma,ns, Minnesota, Missouri Nebraska.
Vermont. West Virginia, Wisconsin and
Wyoming.
Educational institutions receiving
funds from the Federal government are
now In operation in all the States and
TERRITORIES except Alaska. Sixty-five
OF these Institutions maintain courses
gregato value Of the permanent funds
! and equipment OF tho land grant col
leges and universities in. 1909 is esti-
funds. s2.a7o,7ss: other permanent
funds. s1S.o!S,04o; land grant or 1862
grounds owned by the institutions
si5.l3G.19S: buildings. sss,3s9,1os; APP
paratus. s3,o539sa: machinery. s2,sO3-
$50: Libraries. $4.13G.739: live stock
s543,246; miscellaneous equipment, s4.,
Go6.l1S: total. s111SS2.687 The income
OF these institutions in 1909, exclusive
OF the funds received from the United
States for agricultural experiment sta
tons (s1,1S0.750). was as follows: In
terest on land grant Of 1862. s763.274:
Interest on other land grants. SI27.733;
of 1890 and 1907 s1,750.00O; interest on
endowment or regular appropriation,