Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 246]

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Treasurer's Rep or £—Continued. Aug. 31. By received on account Mechanical department.. " •' " Architectural " " " " Agricultural " Horticultural " Chemical " " " " Buildings and grounds " " " Fuel and lights " " " Stationery and printing... 111.. Cen. Freight Donation Library and apparatus

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$275 79 1,336 29 359 99 234 80 117 55 364 89 49 40 110 00 708 95 50

$4,058 16 $30,667 57

1882.

August 31... To amount paid for Board expense Salaries Buildings and grounds Fuel and lights '' Stationery and printing '. " Mechanical Department " Architectural Department... Agricultural Department Horticultural Department... " Chemical Department " Military Department Library and apparatus " Incidental expense '' Sundry appropriations " Fixtures and furniture State appropriationsBuildings and grounds Chem., Phys., and Bot. Lab.. Mech. and Arch, shops " Books and publications '' Cabinets Engineering instruments " Library cases '' Heating and ventilation '' Boiler house Balance—State current.

$73 42i 143 79 233 07

990 391 560 92 257 11 305 59 638 79 315 52 31 05 28 89 42 08 114 18 52 65| 47 96

$13,835 41 , 879 06 42 37 283 60 480 71 6 50| 196 01 263 36 159 64 4 50 3,315 75 13,516 41 $30,667 57

U E B A N A , S e p t e m b e r 12th, 1881. J O H N W. BUNN, Treasurer.

The following report was read:

ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE,

CHAMPAIGN, I I I . , Sept. 11,1882. Dr. S. H. Peabody, Regent: I am glad to be able to report the affairs of the farm, as a whole, in good condition. We harvested the grain crops and most of the hay in good condition. By measurements of the threshers, we have, in round numbers: Oats, 1,200 bushels; rye, 675 bushels; timothy seed, 100 bushels; wheat, 40 bushels. The latter small amount was of varieties being tested. Three of these are quite promising; well worthy of further trial. Most of the timothy seed has been sold, at $2.10 per bushel, a sale which now seems to have been a good one. At present prices it has not been thought advisable to sell any of the grain. The hay crop was quite good. We have about 150 tons of good timothy hay, 30 tons of timothy straw, 30 of mixed hay of poorer quality, with a large quantity of straw. The corn is almost a month later than last year. The result now depends entirely on the frost. A severe frost, even at first of next month, would greatly injure much of our crop. If sufficient time be given for it to mature, the larger part of the crop will be fully equal to that of last year. It is proposed to cut about 30 acres, if practicable seeding the ground to rye and grass this fall. The unusual wet spring made it impossible to plant about ten acres designed for corn. This was sown to millet; but the growth of weeds was such as to make the crop practically a failure. I have never known a more favorable season for grass and clover. The pastures have been fresh and green during all the summer, and are now in fine condition, excepting some weeds on new seeding.