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board of trustees

[November 15

I ask permission to authorize the purchase of a milling machine for the Department of Chemistry at a cost of $1946.50 including freight, the amount to be charged against the appropriation for Special Equipment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. O n m o t i o n of D r . N o b l e , this purchase w a s authorized.

REPORT ON PURCHASE OF CRANE

(11) A report of the purchase 0/ a gasoline-operated crane for handling coal, from the Link-Belt Company, in accordance with the action of the Board at its meeting on October 10. The purchase of this equipment was authorized at this meeting, subject to the written approval of M r . Trees and a statement from the Supervising Architect certifying that certain questions which were raised at the meeting had been satisfactorily answered. The specifications were checked over by Professor White and M r . Trees approved the purchase. This report was received for record.

EQUIPMENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

(1 2) A n appropriation of $15,000 for special equipment for the College of Engineering was approved by the Board in the annual budget. The Dean of the College of Engineering has approved a requisition from the head of the Department of Physics for a glass spectrograph of a certain model to cost, with duty, brokerage, freight, insurance, etc., $2,425, the amount to be charged against the appropriation already made. I have approved and authorized this purchase for the reasons that these articles are manufactured specially and that two of them happened to be on the manufacturer's hands in Germany, likely to be sold any day, and not replaceable before next spring. O n m o t i o n of M r . S i m p s o n , the President's action in this m a t t e r w a s confirmed.

PURCHASE OF CALVES FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

(13) The following letter from the Acting Comptroller concerning a requisition submitted to him by the Department of Animal Husbandry for the purchase of Hereford calves for experimental purposes: October 31, 1929 President David Kinley, J55 Administration Building Dear President Kinley: I a m enclosing a requisition from the Department of Animal Husbandry calling for the expenditure of approximately $5500 for two cars of Hereford calves to be purchased from the Chicago Producers Commission Association. This is the Chicago unit of the National Producers Feeder Pool which is a cooperative association for the marketing of livestock. There is no definite quotation made by the Chicago Producers Commission Association but the price will be determined by the price at which a representative of the Pool w h o goes into the producing territory, contracts with the producer. The price is based largely upon the central livestock market at the time of purchase. Shipment is made direct from the point of production which, I understand, in this case will be Texas. The following is a statement from Professor H. P. Rusk concerning this purchase: "In previous years our cattle purchased through the Pool have been cheaper than similar cattle could have been purchased on the open market. This year I shall not be surprised if our Pool calves cost a little more than a similar grade of calves on the Kansas City market but purchasing through the Pool enables us to buy calves all of one brand, uniform quality and age, and have them shipped to us with the least danger of contracting disease enroute. Public stockyards cannot avoid being a source of infection in m a n y cases. Taking all things into consideration I believe that purchasing through the Pool is our best procedure." This transaction will follow the procedure employed in the purchase of experimental calves in the past. In 1927 the purchase amounted to $4500 and was reported to the Board of Trustees at the December, 1927 meeting, and a similar purchase amounting to $6325 was reported in December, 1928.