Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 114]

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PROCEEDINGS O F BOARD O F TRUSTEES.

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Paper C is a statement of t h e appropriations, expenditures and balances December 1st for the quarter ending December 31, 1889. Paper D is a statement of appropriations asked for t h e purpose of carrying on t h e work of t h e Station for t h e quarter ending March 31, 1890, and of some further appropriations asked for this quarter. The Board of Direction asks authority from the Trustees of the University to undertake t h e following work: 1. To investigate a disease of cattle now prevalent in this vicinity and elsewhere in t h e state among cattle which have been turned into t h e corn fields. 2. To take up some experimental work with cucurbitaceous plants. The Board of Direction also asks leave to have analyzed by t h e chemist of t h e Station some samples of butter taken at the American F a t Stock Show by a committee of t h e Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations and sent to t h e Station laboratory, and t o report to the Association the results of such analysis. The Board of Direction also states t h a t Dr. A. G. Manns asks to be relieved from his engagement as First Assistant Chemist of t h e Station, and t h a t it recommends t h a t his request be granted, to take effect December 31, 1889; and it further recommends t h a t t h e vacancy be filled by the appointment of Mr. E. H. Farrington, of Washington, D. C , and t h a t Mr. Farrington be paid $1,500 a year, payable monthly, t h e appointment to take effect January 1, 1890. The appropriation of t h e several sums named in paper D, for the purposes therein stated, is asked of t h e Trustees, as fol'ows: For t h e current quarter ending December 31, 1889—

Buildings and repairs Corn experiment at Flora SundryProfessor Morrow's expenses to Washington Total F o r t h e q u a r t e r e n d i n g M a r c h 31, 1890Buildings and repairs Board expense Books and periodicals Botanical apparatus Bulletins Chemical apparatus Meteorological apparatus Fertilizers . • Fuel and lights Incidentals Printing, stationery an \ postage Salaries 4 Seeds and trees Tools Wages and teams Sundry— Dairv ing experiment Investigation of cattle disease Membership fee, Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations Wheat experiment Total

$25 00 40 00 300 00 10 00 750 00 75 00 15 00 40 00 100 00 25 00 25 00 1,850 00 50 00 100 00 700 00 100 00 100 00 10 00 15 00 $4,330 00

Tools

$25 00 10 00 35 00 36 50

$106 50

Since I was appointed Acting President of t h e Board of Direction to serve until this meeting of t h e Board of Trustees, i t will be necessary for the Trustees to take further action with regard to t h e temporary vacancy. Eespectfully submitted,

Gr. E. MORROW, Acting President.

December 10, 1889.