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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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165 at one or more of the outside courses. The young farmers of Illinois should attend this winter course at the University. They can get no equal amount of practical imformation so cheaply. Prof. Wm. M. Baker-—on The Agriculture of the Ancients ; Prof. A. P. S. Stewart—on Agricultural Chemistry,• Prof. S. W. Robinson—on . Prof. Thomas J. Burrill—on Fungus Plants ) Prof. S. W. Shattuck—on Sewerage and Irrigation; Mr. E. L. Lawrence, Head Farmer—on Cattle Feeding. J. M. GREGORY, Regent W. C. FLAGG, Cor, Sec'y. INDIAN CORK BY B. F. JOHNSON, OP CHAMPAIGN. Ladies and Gentlemen—Y have undertaken to read to you a paper on " Indian Corn, its varieties, their culture and use." I presume there are few students here who do not practically know as much about Indian Corn as myself, and I see by the keen critical eyes of the outside audiences, that there are gentlemen present who feel assured they know a great deal more. ~Eo doubt; and in consideration of the doubt I feel for my performance I ask your indulgence to hear me to the end and to give me that generous appreciation due to an honest first attempt. If I do not stick to any text, and if I make my paper other than you might expect, you will at least acknowledge I go astray in good company and belong to a great and prevailing party. And first, let me say a word to you as to the poverty of the bibliography of Indian Corn. The treatises on Wheat are almost without number. Oats have had their historian, Cabbages have been widely and graphically handled, and the literature of Onions, Pumpkins and Potatoes is so varied and extensive as to leave us nothing to desire ; but I have been able to find at most three or four books on Indian Corn. To be sure, in all botanical works it is referred to and described, but there is very little to be found in those works that would interest you in this connection. Besides the numerous papers on Indian Corn in the reports of the Agricultural department, which papers, I am sorry to say, belong, to a great extent, to the domain of fiction, there have been printed in the United States but three books on Indian Corn. The first, written by the distinguished and indefatigable Cobbett, and originally printed in England, and afterwards reprinted here, thirty or forty years ago, I have been unable to get sight of. The second was published in 1859,
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