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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The next annual meeting of the National Educational Association is to be held in Chicago, in the summer vacation, and a feature of the meeting will be a display of educational work in all forms, to be held in the Exposition building. It will be important that this University be represented there. I ask authority to make an exhibit there. An effort is making to get the State to appropriate for the expenses of this exhibition, which, if successful, will make an appropriation by this Board unnecessary; but it is desirable that provision should be made to be used if needed. I call attention to the requests of Professor Forbes: For leave to raise Mr. Weed's saiary to $60 per month. For instructions as* to the distribution of his forthcoming report. Professor Roos asks $25 for models and repairs, which asking I concur in. Professor McMurtrie asks for leave to purchase chemicals and apparatus. Professor Comstock asks for $100 for physical apparatus to be purchased with the chemical apparatus, and for $150 for purchase of the mining transit now loaned to his department. Authority is asked for the publication of the annual catalogue; 5,000 copies, to cost not more than $250. Authority is asked for building a gun house on the lot east of the drill hall, for housing the two field pieces and for storage of the ammunition furnished by the government, at a cost not to exceed

FINANCIAL

REPORT.

The following concerns tho«e departments of the University which add business transactions to their educational work. It stiould not be expected that these departments should be absolutely self•upporting. It will appear that the expenses of the departments are lessened in some degree by the profits on the business which comes to them incidentally. The Department The acreage in the two University farms is The lands used by the department of agriculture Used in pasture " meadow " tillage The products in 1886 were—Corn Oats Other grain Value of grain produced Hay, tons, 225, value Dairy products, sold Balance Sheet of Agricultural

I n v e n t o r y , Dec. 1, 1886— Live stock Farm products Teams Machinery and tools Sales—Live s t o c k , cash Dairy products Miscellaneous Notes and credits Permanent improvements I n v e n t o r y , Dec. 1, 1885— Live stock F a r m products Machinery and tools P a i d for l a b o r Stock Miscellaneous $10,055 2.936 1.250 1,800 00 25 00 00 $16,041 25 $2,452 00 2,709 42 1,107 90 $6,269 32 $22,310 47 B a l a n c e to credit of f a r m $41 72

of Agriculture.

. 160 acres 170 k ' 170 " 610 acres 50J * *

5,500 bushels 1,600 " 80 l ' $2,400 00 1,125 00 160 83

Department.

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$9,420 2,640 1,200 1,950 $4,865 160 871 297

00 00 00 00 $15,260 00 49 83 00 25 $6,194 07 698 12 200 00 $22,352 19

To which should be added the extra cost of so conducting the work as to derive useful experimental results therefrom, say $1,500.