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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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107 Chas. E. Allard A. L. Rader A. Potter * J. L. Davis J. L. Davis S. M. Busey... Fairbanks, Greenleaf & Co Gammon & Brindle Fuller, Finch & Fuller Champaign Union N. Bateman Jonathan Periam Jonathan Periam B. C. Beach, referred, with power, to the Regent Church, Goodman & Donnelly Pat. Lamb T. J. Burrill G. N. Richards Root&Cady Thos. Quick B, Pullen I. S. Mahan 4 TO 21 00 3 50 20 90 36 00 25 00 100 00 27 00 49 86 12 50 .* 14 82 2*72 50 56 00 6 00 , . , . . . . 154 74 , 37 00 200 00 35 50 35 00 27 65 19 70 20 45 ,.... * It was moved and seconded that ($368 69) three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-nine cents be appropriated for chemicals ; and it was moved that ($439 45) four hundred and thirtynine dollars and forty-five cents be appropriated for chemical apparatus. Carried. It was moved and seconded that a forcing pit or propagating house be built, at a cost of about ($250) two hundred and fifty dollars. Carried. On motion of Mr. V A N OSDEL, the Regent was authorized to buy a good mounted microscope, not to exceed ($250) two hundred and fifty dollars. Carried. The report of Committee on Drainage was then received : REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DRAINAGE. To Executive Committee of Illinois Industrial University ; Your special committee, to whom was referred the matter of underdraining, would respectfully report: We recommend that the 40 acre plot that is to be devoted to horticultural purposes, be underdrained with tile, this fall. A portion of this land is wholly unfit for the purpose for which it is designed without underdraining; but with underdraining it at once becomes very valuable For both experimental and practical gardening we believe it indispensable. The cost of the tile will be nearly $800. They can be procured of A. F. & G. Chitds, on the line of the I. C. R. R., at Anna, and will be warranted against break-
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