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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

The woodwork of the chemical building, outside, has not been repainted since the house waserected, now more than eight years since. The new portico brings this fact into unpleasant relief,, and I suggest that amthority be given to paint the outside woodwork ac an expense not to exceed $175.00. Account, Buildings and grounds. Also, that authority be given to extend the front fence of the college park on Green street, before the lots bought last year, to cost not more than $200.00. Much of this work can be done at the shopduring the winter, so that the fence can be set when the ground opens in the spring. Much work has been done in arranging articles, cases, &c, in the engineering museum. I ask that $50.00 be allowed for carrying on that yyork. Also that $100 be allowed from the fund for natural history collections, to be used for clerical work on the herbarium. There is need for a suitable house for the storage of the field pieces loaned the University by the U. S. War Department, and for the storage of the ammunition supplied from the same source. While I believe that this maybe secured from the present funds, it will hardly be practicable! to enter upon such constructions until the next season opens. The matter is one that should not;be neglected too long. I present the report of Professor Morrow upon the financial affairs of the farm for the year ending December 1st. While the credit balance is not so large as has been shown in some former yeafs,. it must not be forgotten that all agricultural matters are now in a state of almost unprecedented depression, farm produce and stock being sold, if sold at all, at ruinously low prices, and Inventories being of necessity low in proportion. If the four items of Shorthorn and Jersey cattle, corn, and hay now on hand could be valued at the prices of five years ago, the total profits of the year would be increased by more than $2,500.

REPORT OP THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, December 14, T886. Br. S. H. Peabody, Regent: SIR: I respectfully present the following report of the receipts and expenditures of the University farms for the year ending December 1st, 1886, with the inventory of personal property on th# farms of that date: Credits: Inventory, December 1,1886 Cattle—Shorthorns, 55 Jerseys, 9 Herefords and Holsteins, 8 Grades, 13 Colts Hogs, 75 Farm products—Hay, 200 tons Corn, 3,440 bushels Miscellaneous Teams, 9 horses • $4,865 49 160 33 871 00 297 25

$5,500 00 650 00 1,400 00 475 00

$8,025 00 775 00 620 00 $1,000 00 1,315 00 375 00

$9,420 00 $2,690 00 1,200 00 1, 950 00

Sales for cash—Live stock Butter and milk Hay and grain Miscellaneous Notes and credits Total credits Permanent improvements Debits: Inventory, December 1st, 1885. Farm products Teams Machines and tools Paid for labor For stock Miscellaneous Total debits

$15,260 W

$6,194 07 698 12 $200 00 $7,092 19

$10,055 2,936 1,250 1,800

00 25 00 00

$22,352 19

$2,452 00 2,709 42 1,107 90

$16,041 25

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$6,269 32 $22,310 47 $41 72

Balance to credit of the farms