Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 196]

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REPORT OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

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47. Gardening. Tomatoes, effect of artificial fertilization upon earliness of product. 48. Gardening. Beans, testing varieties. 49. Gardening. Sweet corn, testing varieties. 50. Field experiment. Grasses and clovers, effect of ripeness on yield and chemical qualities. 51. Small fruit culture. Strawberries, raising seedlings. 52. Small fruit culture. .Raspberries, soil management. 53. Field experiment. "Wheat, effect of time and manner of harvesting. 54. Field experiment. Corn, root growth. 55. Tree and vine culture. Fungicides, use of. 56. Gardening. Potatoes, investigation of scab. 57. Tree culture. Orchard, investigation of soil moisture. 58. Feeding experiment. Pigs, comparison between corn, grass, and corn and grass in feeding. 59. Feeding experiment. Cost of production of young heifers. 60. Record of milk product. Milk measured for use in experiment No. 29. 61. Field experiment. Wheat, effect of fertilizers. Wheat sown in 1887. The results of one of these experiments, No. 25, have already been published in Bulletin No. 2. The other experiments will be reported upon in future bulletins. Besides this actual experimentation, much has been done to put the Station into working order. An office has been fitted up for the occupation of the Secretary, who keeps in detail the record of the experiments undertaken and of the operations in connection with them, and attends to the accounts, correspondence, and publications of the Station. A library room has been furnished, and already about $3,500 has been spent for books and periodicals relating to agriculture, horticulture, botany, and chemistry. In purchasing books for the Station library, the purpose has been to supplement the University library in these lines of literature. The volumes bought so far are chiefly standard German and French works. A chemical laboratory, in commodius quarters and well supplied with apparatus suitable for its work, has been put into operation at an expense of about $3,000. About $700 has been spent for apparatus for the botanical laboratory of the Station, which is in charge of Prof. Burrill and is in the same rooms with the botanical laboratory of the University. There have been built upon the farm a small fertilizer house and a silo fitted up so that it may be divided, into three compartments and with a total capacity of forty to fifty tons. Also a ware-