Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 34]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

The Machine and Carpenter Shops. Carpenter shop.

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Machine shop. (Jr. Work for University Work for other parties.. State appropriations Dr. Materials and tools. Labor Power Instructor Balance against shop. Balance for shop Inventory, Feb. 28,1887... Inventory, Feb. 28, 1886.. Net balance against . Net balance for General Balance Sheet. $315 69! 275 38 219 93 1,500 00 $865 47 •27 22| 920 88 $1,813 57-

$2,110 01 212 97 639 80 $2,962 78 $987 18 811 22 219 93 960 00 $2,311 00$497 43 $924 50 624 48 1 l $498 56 $2,928 33 $34 45 302 02

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$490 32 491 40

Loss. Agricultural department . Griggs farm Horticultural department. Chemical laboratory Machine shop Carpenter shop Totals Net balance, gain.

Gain. 41 72 498 00 87 50 606 16

$498 56 $498 56

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$1,569 85 $1,071 29

Attention is asked to the report of the Professor of Agriculture for the last quarter.

FARM R E P O R T .

University, Champaign, III., March 1,1887. Dr. S. H. Peabody, Regent ^ SIR: During the three months, ending with this date, the receipts from the farms have been $1,725.31. The expenditures have been $759.30. The care of the live stock has been the principal work. In general, all classes of stock have done well. A small lot of fat caltle and two of hogs have been sold. An unusually good lot of young Shorthorn bulls will be for sale this spring, and a few cows and heifers may also be disposed of. It is believed desirable to unite with other breeders near Champaign in a second annual public sale of Shorthorn cattle about the last of May. A report of experiments in Pig Feeding and a partial report of experiments in Cattle Feeding now in progress, are submitted, prepared by Mr. Hunt, who has had the special direction of this work. After a consultation with the chairman of the Farm Committee, men have been employed to fill, in part, the places of Mr. John Dodds, and Mr. L. G. Lathrop who, for four years past, have lived on the farms, and acted as working foremen, discharging their duties with unusual fidelity. As the men employed are not expected to have equal responsibilities, their wages have been placed at a less rate—$28 per month. It is expected to plant 90 to 100 acres in corn,.and sow 50 to 70 acres in oats. The grass land may be about equally divided between meadow and pasture, although there is a larger acreage which might be wisely used for pasturage than will be necessary to support the stock now on the farms. It is believed the purchase of one or two car loads of steers to be grazed during summer, corn fed and sold next fall would be advisable. . During the three months I have attended ten farmers 1 institutes and agricultural meetings, making twelve addresses, and have forwarded papers to be read at three meetings, invitations to attend which I have been unable to accept. Five of these meetings have been institutes held under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture, including the one held at the University Feb. 3-4. These institutes I believe highly useful and think it appropriate that the University should continue its aid to them.