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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

SELIM H. PEABODY, P H . D., LL. D., PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF

DIRECTION.

To the Begent of the University: The work of the Station has been carried on during the two years for the most part along the lines laid down in the beginning. The chief expenditures, as a glance at the financial exhibits (pp. 92and 177) will show, have been for publication of bulletins and reports, for labor, and for salaries. Upon the laboratories and the library only so much was spent as was essential to their highest usefulness.

BUILDINGS.

No new buildings have been erected. One of the barns on the University farm was burned September, 1889, and at the same time the silo which the Station had built was destroyed. Replacing this has been deferred until such time as the University shall have funds with which to build a new barn.

LIBRARY.

A considerable number of new books has been bought for the library and the subscription list of journals and periodicals has been increased. Valuable agricultural and horticultural reports, etc., have been donated to the Station. Four hundred and twenty-seven volumes have been bound during the two years. The subscription list has thirty-eight titles, and the exchanges number one hundred. The whole number of bound volumes and pamphlets, including bulletins, is 3,034.

PUBLICATIONS.

Nine bulletins, Nos. 3-11, inclusive, and the two annual reports have been published and distributed. The bulletins contained in all 328 pages, and 10,000 or 11,000 copies of each were printed. The reports were pamphlets of sixteen and eighteen pages with cover. 2,000 copies were printed of the first and 1,000 of the second. The bulletins contain articles as follows: Bulletin No. 3, November, 1888, 12 pp. Field Experiments with Oats, 1888. Bulletin No. 4, February, 1889, 104 pp. Field Experiments with Corn, 1888. Garden Experiments with Sweet Corn, 1888. Bulletin No. 5, May, 1889, 24 pp. Grasses and Clovers. Effect of Eipeness upon Yield and Composition. Bulletin No. 6, August, 1889, 12 pp. A Bacterial Disease of Corn. Bulletin No. 7, November. 1889, 37 pp. The Biology of Ensilage. Field Experiments with Oats, 1889.