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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1898
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1896.] PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 41 M E E T I N G OF D E C E M B E R 8, 1896. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois met in the President's office at the University, in Urbana, Illinois, at 3 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, December 8, 1896. The members present were Messrs. Armstrong, Bullard, Graham, Inglis, Morrison, McLean, Raymond and Mrs. Flower; those absent were Governor Altgeld, Messrs. Judy, and Morgan, and Mrs. Dr. Smith. The minutes of the last meeting were approved as presented by the Secretary. President Draper laid before the Board his report to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction concerning the University. The report was approved. . President Draper presented the following report from Professor Davenport, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. REPORT'OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, November 30, 1896. A. S'.* Draper, President University of Illinois. DEAR SIR:—During the quarter the University herd has been increased by two very fine bull calves, one a Shorthorn, and the other a Holstein-Friesian. Both are fine specimens and will do us, credit, if they develop as they promise. The cows are considerably milked down, but are in thriving condition, and the bulls are really coming to be something unusually fine. We are yet putting a good share of the energy of the Station into the question of the best methods of supplying milk to the city trade. There are many and perplexing problems involved, a few of which are peculiar to our conditions, but most of which are inherent in the business. Mr. Fraser nominally took charge of the work in August, but at that time, and because of the sickness of Professor Holden for a considerable time after, he was very much occupied with the affairs of the field and in helping to install the new order of things. Since he has confined his attention to the milk trade he has put a force into things that has not hitherto appeared in the management of this feature of our affairs. He spent nearly two weeks during November in the Elgin district in studying methods and machinery there, and I have great reason to hope that at last we have a management that will manage I am not at all satisfied with the condition of experimental work left behind by Mr. Powers to be embodied into, a bulletin on pasteurization. Most of his work was done before a Director was appointed, and it happened to be a case that needed more than ordinary direction. I succeeded in bringing his ex-
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