Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.—Additional book stacks have been put in the library at a cost of $6,000.

Massachusetts Agricultural College.-An addition to the dining hall was completed at a cost of $25,000.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.—A new site containing 50 acres has been purchased for $775,000. Of this amount, $500,000 came from Mr. T. Coleman du Pont and the remainder from 20 public-spirited citizens. An anonymous donor subscribed $2,500,000 toward the fund for the new technology building. Mr. Pratt made provision in his will for the endowment of the institute's department of naval architecture and marine engineering. His property, valued at $700,000 and which has accumulated to $750,000, was transferred to the institute, but at present the validity of the will is being disputed. Real and personal estate amounting to nearly $40,000 has been transferred to the institute by two of its alumni for the summer camp in engineering. Other gifts are $50,000 for the establishment of the Samuel Cabot fund, and the Dering library consisting of 30,000 volumes, and rarities of great historical value made by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

University of Minnesota.—A new agricultural engineering building has been completed. The new main engineering building was occupied in September, 1912. Appropriations of the 1913 legislature contemplate additional equipment in the electrical and experimental laboratories and in the shops of the mechanical engineering department. For a trolley line between the university farm and the main campus $60,000 has been provided.

Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. The following buildings have being erected: A bacteriological office building costing $2,500; a stock barn for experiment work, $3,000; two residences on the campus, $3,500; and an addition to the new chemical laboratory, $7,000. Concrete walks and storm drains have been constructed at a cost of $15,000.

University of Missouri.—New buildings completed the past year include a physics building, costing $100,000; an agricultural chemistry building, $75,000; and an education building to be used for an experimental elementary school, $5,000. A biology building to cost $100,000 and an extension to the engineering laboratories to cost $6,000 are in course of construction. New boilers have been purchased, and an extension to the power plant has been made at a cost of $25,000. A site for a library has been purchased at a cost of $75,000.

University of Nebraska.-The following buildings have been completed the past year: A law college building, costing $85,000; a laboratory building for the medical college at Omaha, $100,000; a school building for the agricultural school at Curtis, $100,000.

University of Nevada.-A library building, to cost $10,000, and a dairy building to cost $5,000, are in course of construction.

New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.-An engineering building to cost $80,000 is in process of construction.

New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.-The 1912 legislature appropriated $30,000 for a fireproof engineering building, which is in course of construction, or soon will be.

North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.—A Young Men's Christian Association building was completed at a cost of $40,000.

Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.—A chapel building has been completed at a cost of $84,000. An engineering building costing $75,000 has been completed. A new boiler for heating plant has been added at a cost of $5,000. The former chapel has been converted into a library reading room at a cost of $5,000. A target gallery has been erected, costing $500.

Pennsylvania State College.-A horticultural building, to cost $40,000, is in course of construction. A sewage disposal plant, at a cost of $45,000, and a shop unit for the engineering group, at a cost of $20,000, have been completed.

University of Porto Rico.-The College of Agriculture at Mayaguez occupied its building at the first of the year. Additional shops and other laboratory and recitation halls, to cost $25,000, and campus improvement, to cost $10,000, are under way. A home economics building at Rio Piedras, costing $11,500, has just been finished, and 20 acres have been put under cultivation for classes in agriculture. A cement aboratory and recitation building, costing $35,000, and new frame shops are being built.

Rhode Island State College.-A science building has been erected, costing $105,000, including equipment.

Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina.-New buildings and additions to buildings have been constructed at a cost of $10,879.

Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College of South Carolina.— A dairy barn, costing $4,000, and agricultural buildings have been constructed. South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.—An administration building has been erected at a cost of $100,000.

University of Tennessee.-At Memphis a laboratory building costing $36,000 was erected for the use of the medical, pharmacy, and dental colleges.

Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.-An academic building, costing $220,000, and a dining hall, costing $110,000, have been erected.

Utah Agricultural College.-A chemistry building, costing $55,000, and a machine shed, costing $2,500, have been erected. One story has been added to the mechanic arts building, at a cost of $9,000, and a new heating plant has been completed at a cost of $29,500.

University of Vermont and State Agricultural College.-Residences to be used as investment have been purchased for $15,000.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute.-The shops building, and its entire equipment, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $75,000. Steps were taken immediately to rebuild and to equip a new shop with more modern and more complete equipment.

State College of Washington.—A mechanic arts building and an agricultural building, each to cost $150,000, are in course of construction.

University of Wisconsin.-The following buildings, and additions to buildings, have been constructed: Biology building, costing $71,500; west wing to chemistry building, $60,352; agricultural chemistry building, $38,665; horticulture greenhouse, $1,703; home economics and university extension, $44,620; lighting station, $20,185; tunnels, $15,110; clinical building, $15,261; kitchen building, $4,911; women's dormitory, $92,367.

University of Wyoming.—An agricultural hall, to cost $100,000, is in course of construction.

INCOME.

The following table shows the total income from all sources for the years ended June 30, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913, excluding appropriations for experiment stations, farmers' institutes, and extension work where these funds were reported to this bureau separate from the regular college funds.

The separate appropriations for extension work and farmers' institutes, as reported to this bureau, amounted to $722,425. These colleges received for experiment station work, from the States, $1,024,455, and from the Federal Government, under the provisions of the Hatch and Adams Acts, $1,359,302. The total income of the 68 land-grant colleges for all purposes for the year ended June 30, 1913, was $28,068,321. Of this amount, 56 per cent was received from the Federal Government and 17 per cent from the States. Excluding the experiment station funds and the extension work and farmers' institute funds, 57 per cent was supplied by the Federal Government and 14 per cent by the States.

ENDOWMENT OF AUGUST 30, 1890, AND MARCH 4, 1907.

The total appropriated for the year ended June 30, 1913, from the United States Treasury in aid of the land-grant colleges under the provisions of the acts of August 30, 1890, and March 4, 1907, was $2,500,000, each State receiving $25,000 under the Morrill Act of 1890 and $25,000 under the Nelson Act of 1907. Sums from this amount were expended for instruction in the various subjects in the proportion shown in the table following:

Percentage of appropriation expended for instruction in various subjects.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS, 1913.

The legislatures of 42 States were in session during the year 1913. This summary includes the regular appropriation bills in behalf of the land-grant colleges; also special appropriation bills for new buildings and equipment.

University of Arizona.—The following amounts were appropriated for the biennial period beginning July 1, 1913, and ending June 30, 1915: For agricultural instruction at the University of Arizona and for the maintenance and improvements of the university farm, $23,500; for printing bulletins and reports, $4,500; for office and library service in connection with the experiment station, $5,000; for the acquisition of 160 acres additional land and improvements on same, $30,000; for the construction and furnishing of a fire-proof agricultural building, $165,000; for the maintenance of the university, $140,000; for improvements, equipment, and repairs, $20,000 (ch. 75, May 17, 1913).

'Provides an annual tax not exceeding 0.085 dollar on each $100 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1914, and June 30, 1915, for maintenance, improvement, and conduct of the university (ch. 73, May 17, 1913).

University of Arkansas. For the biennial period beginning July 1, 1913, and ending June 30, 1915: For maintenance and expenses of the departments of the college of arts and sciences, $24,094; for the college of agriculture and experiment station, $56,500; for the college of engineering, $15,000; for salaries, $107,000; for general items, $85,000; for the medical college, $36,000 (act 224, Mar. 29, 1913).

University of California.—For the biennial period, 1913-14: For support and maintenance, $400,000; for printing, $12,000; for college of agriculture, including support of the university farm school at Davis, $700,000; for university extension work, $50,000; for Los Angeles department of the college of medicine, $20,000; for Scripp's Institution of Biological Research, $15,000; for work of insecticide and fungicide control laboratory, $10,000 (ch. 680, June 10, 1913).

Colorado Agricultural College. For the biennial period of 1913-14: For interest and payments on lands, $29,309.80; for experiment station, $47,500; for horse breeding, $5,000 (ch. 8, May 13, 1913).

For payment for 1,600 acres of land granted from the public land to the State of Colorado by act of Congress June 25, 1910, $2,000 (ch. 9, Apr. 15, 1913).

Connecticut Agricultural College.—For the two years ending September 30, 1915: For maintenance, $60,000; for agricultural extension, $10,000; in lieu of interest on land-grant fund, $13,500; for the Storrs agricultural experiment station, $9,000; for sewerage and waterworks, $20,000; for auditorium and armory, $60,000; for cottages, $15,000; for furnishings for dormitory and poultry buildings, $8,000 (ch. 295, June 5, 1913).

For the agricultural experiment station, for current expenses, $35,000; for food and drug investigation, $5,000; for State and station entomologist, $8,000 (ch. 321, June 4, 1913).

Delaware College.-Annually for the years 1913 and 1914 as follows: For maintenance of chair of history, $2,500; for improvement of buildings and grounds, $7,500; for the division of agricultural extension, $5,000; for the salary of the bacteriologist and all expenses of the pathological and bacteriological laboratory, $3,500; for summer school, $1,200 (ch. 31 and ch. 32, Apr. 22, 1913).

For the purpose of building a greenhouse, $5,000 (ch. 119, Apr. 1, 1913).

For finishing swimming pool and completing gymnasium, $1,000 (ch. 123, Mar. 17, 1913).

Authorizes that site or sites be secured and a dormitory and a laboratory be constructed, equipped, and furnished, the total aggregato cost not exceeding $125,000 (ch. 124, Mar. 31, 1913).

State College for Colored Students (Delaware).-Appropriates for maintenance for the years 1913 and 1914, $3,000 annually (ch. 31 and 32, Apr. 22, 1913).

University of Florida.-Appropriates for the agricultural college sinking fund, $2,716 annually (ch. 6432, June 7, 1913).

Georgia State College of Agriculture. For each of the fiscal years 1914 and 1915 for support and maintenance, $100,000; $40,000 of this amount is to be expended for extension work (act No. 264, Aug. 19, 1913).

Georgia State Industrial College.-For the fiscal years 1914 and 1915 for support and maintenance, $8,000 annually (act No. 264, Aug. 19, 1913).

University of Idaho.-Appropriates for the years 1913 and 1914 the following: For general maintenance and equipment, $94,800; for forestry department, $15,000; for building, grounds, and improvements, $21,800; for library, books, and periodicals, $8,500; for investigation of alfalfa weevil, $4,000; for maintenance of farmers' institutes, movable schools, field men, and home economics, $25,000; for maintenance and equipment of demonstration farm at Aberdeen, $5,000; at Gooding, $4,000; at Caldwell, $6,000; Bonner County (Clagstone), $4,800; for poultry department, $3,000; for maintenance of live stock, $2,000; for United States cooperative irrigation investigation, $5,000 (ch. 193, Mar. 15, 1913).

University of Illinois.-Appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 1913, are as follows: For maintenance, equipment, and general operating expenses, $1,600,000 per annum; for the purchase of land and the erection and permanent equipment of buildings, $650,000 per annum (S. B. No. 675, June 24, 1913).

For the study of the coal-mining industry, accidents and wastes, in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Mines, $4,500 annually; for the payment of interest on the endowment funds of the university for the years 1913 and 1914, $65,000 annually, or so much thereof as may be necessary (H. B. No. 895, June 30, 1913.)

These appropriations are paid out of money paid into the State treasury and set apart for the benefit of the university in accordance with an act approved June 30, 1911, entitled "An act to provide by State tax for a fund for the support and maintenance of the University of Illinois."

Purdue University (Indiana).-For maintenance, $32,500 (ch. 196, Mar. 13, 1913). For greenhouse, $30,000; for equipment for new dairy building, $28,000; for the purchase of additional farm lands for the agricultural department, $125,000 (ch. 184, Mar. 11, 1913).

For the use of the veterinary science department, for hog cholera, $15,000 (ch. 135, Mar. 7, 1913).

Provides a tax of 7 cents on each $100, two-fifths of the total proceeds to be apportioned to Purdue University (ch. 181, Mar. 10, 1913).

For the testing of milk, $1,000 (ch. 340, Mar. 15, 1913).

Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.-Provides a special tax of onehalf of 1 mill on the dollar upon the taxable property of the State for the purpose of creating a fund for the further equipment and support of extension work, experimentation, collegiate and noncollegiate courses of study, to be made in the years 1913 and 1914 (ch. 228, Apr. 23, 1913).

For additional support of collegiate departments, $125,000; for agricultural extension, $48,000; for agricultural experiment station, $57,000, of which a sum not exceeding $35,000 may be used for the purchase of an additional farm for experimental purposes; for one and two year noncollegiate courses, $12,500; for trade school and engineering extension work, $25,000; for engineering experiment station, $5,000; for veterinary practitioners' course, $5,000; for veterinary investigations, $10,000; for repair and contingent fund, $10,000; for support of two and four year courses in home economics for homemakers and teachers, $20,000; for equipment of departments and buildings, $40,000; for maintenance and improvement of public grounds, $10,000; for the enlargement of buildings and small additional buildings, $10,000 (ch. 228, Apr. 23, 1913).