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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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164 ism, is that while it elevates the individual, it at the same time gives security for the future prosperity of the nation? LECTURERS. Among the gentlemen who have consented to make addresses at one or more of these meetings, are the following : Thomas Median, Editor of the Gardener's Monthly, and one of the leading Botanists and Horticulturists of America, will deliver a course of six lectures at the University, commencing Monday, January7 8, and continuing through the week—on : 1. A General Yiew of Agriculture and Horticulture. 2. Structure of Plants. 3. How Plants Live. 4. How Plants Grow. 5. Pleasures of Plant Culture. 6. Profits of Plant Culture. Nurserymen, fruit growers and gardeners should hear them all. Dr. E. S. Hull, Horticultural Editor of the Prairie Farmer, will lecture at Dixon—on The Fruitful Conditions of Trees ; at Pontiac—on Conditions Affecting Tree Growth; at Avon, on both the above topics; and at Pittsfielcl—on Office of the Boots of Trees. Dr. Hull is " known by his fruits." B. F. Johnson, Correspondent of the Country Gentleman—Corn, its Varieties, and their Culture. Dr. Wm. Le Baron, State Entomologist—on Insects. A. M. Garland, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture—on The Fence Question. John M. Pearson, of the Board of Trustees—on Planting by Machinery. Judge L, W. Lawrence, of the Board of Trustees—on The Cause and Cure of the Deterioration of our Spring Wheat Crops in Northern Illinois. Hon. T. A. E, Holcomb—on Packing and Marketing. Hon. W. C. Flagg, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Trustees— on Our Bailways and Our Farmers. D, A, Brown, President of the State Agricultural Society—on Drainage. LECTURERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY. Dr. J. M. Gregory, will lecture on The Advantage and Disadvantage of Farm Life, and on the Education of Farmers' Children. Dr. Manly Miles, Professor of Agriculture of the Illinois Industrial University, and of Michigan Agricultural College, will lecture during the whole winter term, from January 2 to March 27, before the Agricultural classes of the University, upon Practical Agriculture, and also
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