Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 247]

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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS. T A B L E SHOWING EXPERIMENTS—Continued.

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: c Apples, testing new varieties Apples, testing new varieties by top-grafting Apples, testing hardiness of root-grafted and double-worked J trees Pears, testing new varieties Plums, testing new varieties Cherries, testing new varieties Forest trees, growing of Testing time and methods of transplanting trees 1888-9 Testing and improving native fruits Testing the effects of stock and scion upon each other Peach trees, winter protection of 1889-90 Trees, protection of trunks Trees, protection from mice, rabbits and insects Vine Culture. Grapes, testing new varieties 1887-8 Grapes, methods of training Grapes, soil treatment Small Fruit Culture. Blackberries, testing varieties Raspberries, testing varieties Strawberries, testing varieties Strawberries, method of management Strawberries, raising seedlings Raspberries, soil management Gardening.

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B e a n s , t e s t i n g varieties Sweet corn, t e s t i n g varieties P o t a t o e s , investigation of scab Cucurbitaceous plants, except m e l o n s , t e s t s of 1889-90 Tree and Vine Culture. \ Fungicides, u s e of I 1887-8 Insecticides, u s e of Miscellaneous. 1888-9 Record of soil t e m p e r a t u r e s Soil moisture, evaporation of water from t h e surface of water, of uncultivated soil, of cultivated soil, of a corn plant, a n d of g r a s s Meteorological record from A u g u s t 17,1858 Biology of ensilage | C a n a d a thistles, e x t e r m i n a t i o n of. (At Mattoon) F r u i t s , production of n e w varieties from s e e d s 1889-90 Vitality of timothy, blue g r a s s a n d r e d t o p s e e d s t e s t e d Vitality of s e e d s t e s t e d I n v e s t i g a t i o n of a bacterial disease of corn Woods, t e s t i n g durability of Po f atoes, investigation of r o t i n , T o m a t o e s , investigation of r o t in Cabbages, investigation of r o t in B e a n s , investigation of d i s e a s e s in

BULLETINS.

A brief summary of the articles contained in the bulletins during the two years is here given:

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Bulletin No. 3 , pp. 25-36* F I E L D E X P E R I M E N T S WITH OATS, 1888. T h e same experiments reported upon in this article were continued through t h e season of 1889, and the results for both years are given below in t h e summary of t h e article upon experiments with oats in bulletin No. 7. Bulletin No. 4, pp. 3 7 - 1 4 0 . F I E L D E X P E R I M E N T S WITH CORN, 1888. See below summary of first article in bulletin No. 8. G A R D E N E X P E R I M E N T S W I T H SWTEET CORN. See below summary of second article in bulletin No. 8.