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appropriation, available for expenditure the present season, in evert numbers, $14,000. Your Committee recommend the appropriation of $600 for a small barn near the gardener's house. They recommend, also, the erection of a dwelling house on the Experimental Farm, at a cost of not more than $2,000. A barn is also needed on this farm, near the house last mentioned, of considerable size. We have no plans or specifications of this building, and would recommend that this matter be entrusted to the Executive Committee, with directions not to exceed a cost of $4,000. Your Committee recommend the purchase of two good horses, and a market wagon and cart for the garden, and two horses and a two-horse wagon for the orchard grounds, besides harness, etc. These will cost about $800, for which an appropriation is recommended. For salaries of Head Gardener and Orchardist, cultivation of orchards, nursery, gardens, etc., and feed for horses, an appropriation should be made of $3,000. Your Committee deem it essential that the Experimental Farm, so called, should be divided between the Horticultural and Agricultural Departments, and they propose, with the consent of the Chairman of the Agricultural Committee, that the latter Department have 80 acres on the east, the remainder to be used by the Horticultural Department for orchards, gardens, nurseries, and arboretum. Your Committee also report, that they have received from M. L. Dunlap, Esq., trees and shrubs, on account Champaign county donation, $225, leaving balance still on said account of $353. Your Committee recommend a further appropriation of $750 for the completion of the green-house, and the sum of $150 for the purchase of lawn mower, roller and other garden tools, and $100 for plants and seeds, for pro' pagation. Your Committee further recommend that the Professor of Agriculture be relieved of the care of the Horticultural Department, and that this be placed under the charge of Prof. Burrill. A. M. BROWN, Chairman.

The report of the Committee on Horticulture was received and adopted, except so much of it as called for appropriations, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. The Regent asked and obtained leave to insert in his report the details in regard to the library, drainage, and geological excursion. The Special Committee appointed to visit the several departments, and classes in session, made the following

REPORT:

To the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University: GENTLEMEN : Your Committee have attended to the duty assigned to them this morning, and beg leave to report as follows: