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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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ILLINOIS AGRICULTURE. In view of the limited means at the disposal of the Trustees^ upon their first organization, the Corresponding Secretary undertook to gather together, by circulars, such an amount of scientific and practical information as might give to this first report a direct economical value to farmers and others into whose hands it might come. With this intent the following circular was issued : ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, OFFICE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Alton, Dec. 1, 1867. DEAR SIR : In order to obtain for the Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University reliable statements of the results of the experience and observation of practical farmers in all parts of this State, the following queries are addressed to yourself and others, in the hope that you will find it convenient to communicate any information you may possess upon one or more of the topics named, as well as concerning any other subjects that you may deem of value to the agricultural interests of our State. Five thousand copies of the Report, in which we wish to embody your suggestions, will be printed and distributed at the expense of the State ; and we hope that you and others will avail yourselves of this opportunity to improve the methods of agriculture by a wide distribution of the practices of our best farmers. Address, W. C. FLAGG, Cor. Sec, Alton. J. M. GREGORY, Regent 1. What "is the location of your farm by section, township and range ; its distance from market town or shipping point ? 2. Character of surface soil, as to depth, color and consistency; of subsoil, whether clay, sandy, or gravelly: natural growth, whether prairie or forest, with varieties of plants and trees growing spontaneously. 3. Number of acres in your farm : number in cultivation: number in woodland or wild pasture : division of fields; rotation of crops? 4. When was your farm first put in cultivation : kind of crops taken off: to what extent does the soil seem exhausted by cultivation : have you used manures, and, if
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