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To understand what the shops are doing, we must first ask what they would cost if they earned nothing, that is, if used only for instructional work. Evidently there would be outlay at first for building, engine, machinery, tools, etc., and an annual cost for tools, power, material and instruction. If operated only as a means of teaching, the shops would be a constant cost to the treasury diminished by whatever the legislature might appropriate for the purpose. If other work be done in the shops, then any amount which shows a diminished aggregate of expense as compared with the aggregate which would appear if no work of this kind were done, may be set down to the credit of the shops. The call for commercial work has greatly diminished since the shops were opened. The machine shop especially gets now very little, chiefly because other shops have been opened nearer the business centers of Champaign and Urbana. It has been the practice to do the work of the University within its own shops, care being taken to keep the cost as low as it would be if the work were done outside. The work has been done chiefly by our students. Should classes continue to increase it will be necessary to devise some way of providing work for the advanced students by which they may be interested as well as taught. While the machine shop has less commercial work than the carpenter's shop, it teaches more than twice as many students. The table appended indicates that without commercial work the two shops would have cost the University in the year as estimated $2,360, of which $1,500 would be paid by State appropriation, leaving $860 a charge against the general fund. It also shows that the actual cost to the University was reduced to $1,357.87; in other words that the business of the shops had benefited the general fund by $1,002.13. Including the State appropriations the shops show a credit balance of $142.13 at the same time that they have given instruction to 72 different students, with an average of about 50.

Balance Sheet of Machine and Carpenter Shop, for the year ending March 1, 1884.

CABPENTEE'S SHOP. MACHINE SHOP.

W I T H O U T COMMEKCIAL W O E E .

F o r m a t e r i a l s a n d tools Power Teacher L e s s State a p p r o p r i a t i o n s B a l a n c e s p a i d from g e n e r a l fund

$130 00 50 00 750 00

$930 00 500 00 $430 00

$130 00 100 00 1,200 00

$1,430 00 1,000 00 $430 00 $860 00

W I T H COMMEKCIAL W O E E .

Debits. F o r m a t e r i a l s a n d tools...1 Labor Power Teacher and foreman Credits. W o r k for U n i v e r s i t y Work for o t h e r p a r t i e s State appropriation B a l a n c e in favor of g e n e r a l fund T o t a l b a l a n c e in favor of g e n e r a l fund Add e s t i m a t e d loss w i t h o u t c o m m e r c i a l w o r k , $1,349 91 548 64 500 00 $855 01 128 28 1,000 00 * $655 32 727 76 121 81 750 00 $264 53 398 48 121 81 1,200 00 $1,984 82

$2,254 89

2,398 55 $143 66 $142 13 860 00 $1,002 13 22 $1,104 44

1,983 29 $1 53

Total b a l a n c e in favor of s h o p s in c o n s e q u e n c e

No. of s t u d e n t s t a u g h t d u r i n g t h e y e a r

50 $614 02

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