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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926
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132 board of trustees [December 13, last Tuesday at the polls, and, as enough other people did the same thing, we are glad to be able to congratulate you. Very truly yours, Herman Schwake President November 21, 1924 M y Dear Mr. Schwake: Replying to your favor of November 10, regarding the appropriation for $25,000 to establish and maintain an agricultural experiment in northern Illinois, I find upon referring to the Session Laws that this appropriation was made to the University of Illinois for this purpose. I am taking the liberty of mailing your letter, together with a copy of m y reply, to Doctor W . L. Noble, President of the Board of Trustees, 31 North State Street, Chicago. Personally, I a m very much in favor of agricultural experiment stations. I believe that much good has been accomplished by them and that the work should be continued and extended where practical and feasible to do so. Yours very truly, Lek Small Mr. Herman Schwake, President Cook County Farm Bureau Arlington Heights, Illinois 3. O n December 1 I replied to Dr. Noble as follows: Urbana, Illinois, December I, 1914 Dr. W . L. Noble, 31 North State Street, Chicago Dear Dr. Noble: This is to acknowledge the receipt of yours with enclosures concerning Cook County Experiment Field. Dean Mumford is out of town today so that I shall not have an opportunity to get a report from him for some days. In the meantime, however, I am able to say that Mr. Schwake is mistaken on one or two things. One of these is m y own personal interest in the matter. It is a dozen years or more since Ifirsttold our agricultural people that, in m y judgment, they ought to go into the Cook County truck farming situation. As to Mr. Schwake's statement about two high officers of the University trying to dissuade them from trying to secure a separate appropriation, it is correct. I was one of them. W e had already come to an understanding to begin in a small way without asking for extra funds. But the Cook County representatives felt that they wanted to begin in a larger way and so introduced a bill for a separate appropriation. M y objection to it was, and is, that it is a mistake for each separate county to get separate appropriations for such a purpose. However, I will get the data together for the Board Meeting. In the meantime, however, if you care to do so, you may assure Mr. Schwake that there is no lack of sympathy with the proposal. As to whether the act of the legislature implies buying land, that is, of course, a question on which I could not express an opinion without looking carefully into the matter. Sincerely yours, David Kinley President 4. The history of this matter is as follows: On February 6, 1923, Honorable Howard P. Castle, Member of the General Assembly, wrote m e enclosing a letter received from the Cook County Farm Bureau on the matter of establishing a truck experiment farm. H e enclosed a letter from Mr. L. L. Heller, Farm Adviser of the Cook County Farm Bureau. These letters, with a note of Dean Mumford's, and m y own reply are attached as an Appendix marked I. 5. It will be seen from this correspondence that Mr. Heller suggested to Mr. Castle the desirability of pushing the proposal to establish a Cook County Experiment heseparate appropriation. commentsunder considerationit might beand to meetthat expenseIn Dean suggested the probability of the and that Mr.being unableaMr. Heller Station, from thatMumford's had been on the letters of for Castlethan year, seek a remarked he contemplated appropriations, University's more desirable to the 6. that its the matter
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