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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876
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98 16 ACRES OATS. To cost Profit.. By 100 bus. on hand.. 1 ' 114 bus. sold '* 86 bus. fed *' value of straw.... 120 A.CRES MEADOW. $136 00 20 75 $45 52 34 25 00 35 40 00 5156 75I $179 00 409 00 759 44 $156 75 To hay as per inventory March 1.. ' ' cost of new crop Profit By amount on hand •' sales (this includes $135 in item of accounts). ' ' fed stock $660 00 467 44 220 00 $1,347 44 HOG CROP. $1,347 44 Tainventory of March 1.. pasture . Profit.. By cash sales... " inventory $412 00 656 91 20 00j 293 34 $582 45 799 80 $1,382 25 120 acres pasture .$1,218.14 outside work, 33% per c e n t . Keeping blooded stock Beets, potatoes, parsnips, etc., etc .... As before shown—Cattle *' " Corn " " Rye " " Wheat Oats Hay " " Hogs Balance found, see statement' Salary of Head Farmer $3,634 12 $1,382 25 $528 00 406 04 179 28 100 00| 379 79 750 00 122 48 95 00 20 75 759 44 293 34 $3,634 12 900 00 $3,634 12 The representative of the firm of Crane, Breed & Co., presented his olaim for balance of payment on heating apparatus, the time for testing having expired Dec. 22, 1874. After enquiring into the working qualities of the apparatus, and evidence having been presented of the full satisfactory working of same, it was voted that the retained 20 per cent, on contract amounting to $3,465 be paid, the apparatus be accepted, and warrant be drawn on State Treasurer for the amount. Mr. B. F. Johnson in charge of agricultural experiments made his report of the experiments of last year, and the plan for continuing and enlarging the same for next year. To EMERY COBB, ESQ., President Board of Trustees, Illinois Industrial University : SIR—The undersigned having been put in charge of Farm Experiments, Sept. 1,1874, found the following programme laid down by Mr. Flagg : 1st. To ascertain the comparative value of Plats, this being the fourth year, by planting corn on 72 plats, 2x4 rods each without manure ; with a future view of testing fertilizers. 2nd, Planting 40 varieties of corn. 3rd. Testing the value of different depths of plowing and of no plowing. 4th. Testing comparative value of No. of stalks in a hill. 5th. Root pruning the corn crop, either by spade or plow. 6th. Common and extra collection. 7th. Different widths of rows in hills. Sth. Different widths of rows in drills. Dth. Planting varieties of potatoes.
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