Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926 [PAGE 52]

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O n motion of Mrs. Blake, the Contract for the Dairy Barn was awarded to Sowers & Corkery for $43,000. O n motion of Mrs. Evans, the distribution of funds for agricultural buildings (minutes, December 3, 1923, page 369) was amended by assigning $25,000 of the amount provided for beef cattle feeding plant to the amounts provided for the other buildings as m a y be necessary. O n motion of Mrs. Blake, the Contract for the Swine Plant was awarded to Ellis Brooks for $15,985. O n motion of Mrs. Grigsby, the contract for the Horse Barn was awarded to King & Petry for $29,655. ADVISORY COMMITTEES, COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE (29) On nomination of the Dean of the College of Agriculture, I recommend that the following men be appointed on the Advisory Committees for 1924-25. Agronomy—Soilj Mr. Ralph Allen, Delavan Mr. Frank I. Mann, Gilman Mr. A. N. Abbott, Morrison Mr. G. F. Tullock, Rock/ord Mr. N. F. Goodwin, Palestine Agronomy—Crops Mr. Harvey Sconce, Sidell Mr. Eugene Funk, Bloomington Mr. William Webb, Joliet Mr. Charles Rowe, Jacksonville Mr. O. J. Somer, Winona Animal Husbandry Mr. Joseph Fulkerson, Jerseyville Mr. W . S. Corsa, White Hall Mr. A. A. Armstrong, Camargo Mr. A. F. Rising, Champaign Mr. Dan T. Davies, Sugar Grove Dairy Husbandry Mr. N. W . Hepburn, Peoria Mr. A. L. Goodenough, Morrison Mr. G. A. Fox, 60S S. Dearborn Street, Chicago Senator R. B. Swift, Lake Forest Mr. H. C. Horneman, Danville Farm Mechanics Mr. J. P. Stout, Chatham Mr. J. V. Stevenson, Streator Mr. E. L. Gillham, Edwardsville Mr. Otis W . Hoit, Geneseo Farm Organization and Management Mr. C. A. Ewing, Decatur Mr. Frank McKelvey, Springfield Mr. W . E. Riegel, Tolono Mr. W . H. Smith, Eureka Mr. Howard Swanzey, Ridott Horticulture Mr. W . S. Perrine, Centralia Mr. A. L. McClay, Hillview Mr. H. M. Dunlap, Savoy Mr. G. A. Bryant, Princeton Mr. August Geweke, Des Plaines