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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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18 3. The Experimental Farm, 70 acres, including the experimental plats and fields. 4. The Stock Farm, 410 acres. The University owns another farm near Urbana, designed to be sold. The experimental apple orchard has over 3,000 trees of nearly 1,400 varieties. The pear orchard has, already planted or growing in nursery, over 400 varieties of pears. The other fruit plantations embrace a large number of varieties of various fruit trees and small fruits. The forest plantations already include 20 acres of timber trees planted in rowrs, and designed to illustrate artificial forest culture. BUILDINGS. The old University Building, now occupied partly by class rooms, library and laboratory, and partly with private rooms for students, is of brick, 125 feet in length and five stories in hight, with a wing of 40 feet by 80 feet, four stories in hight. The building was donated by Champaign county. The new University Building, of which the above is a cut, is to be 214 feet in length, with wings extending back 124 feet. It is three stories beside basement and Mansard roof. It is designed wholly for public use, and will contain a large public hall for chapel and general exercises, large drawing rooms and thirty class and lecture rooms, sufficient for the instruction of 1,000 or 1,200 students. In one wing, to be made fire-proof, will be provided a spacious library and reading
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