KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, a coeducational institution, lo cated at Manhattan, Kan.; established in 1863 by the presentation to the State of Bluemont College. The college has excellent opportu nities for experimental works as it cultivates 1,270 acres of land; 748 acres of which is owned by the college, and 522 acres leased. A branch station is located at Hays, Kan., with about 3,500 acres of land; two with 320 acres each at Colby and Garden City, and two of 160 acres each at Dodge and Tribune. It is not a classical school; the departments, the courses of which lead to the degree of bachelor of science, are agriculture, English, civil and high way, mechanical and electrical engineering, home economics, agricultural engineering, gen eral and domestic science. It has also a pre paratory department, a music school and a trade school. It has several short courses, as
dairying, 12 weeks in winter; agriculture and mechanics, 12 weeks in winter, for two years; horticulture and mechanics, 12 weeks in winter, for two years; and domestic science, 12 weeks in fall, for two years. The faculty numbered in 1917 190, and the number of pupils in at tendance was over 3,000. The school has an income from tuitions: from the State; from the "Land Grant Fund" of 1862; and by the United States Appropriation Act of 30 Aug. 1890, with a total annual revenue of about $870,000. A weekly periodical, devoted to the interests of the subjects taught in the school and called the Kansas Industrialist. is published by the faculty. The library has about 47,400 volumes and 25,000 pamphlets, and the value of the college property is about $1,980,000.