Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 42]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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had been anticipated. The aggregate of expenditures has been only slightly above the sums allowed, and has not passed the pro rata to this point in the year. The balances of moneys not used amount to $335.15, and the amounts overdrawn are $380.00, which you are asked to examine and approve. Exhibit C—Appropriations, expenditures, deficits, balances, current quarter ending March 31, 1889:

Appropri- Expenses. ated. Buildings and r e p a i r s . . . , Board expenses B o o k s a n d publications Bulletins a n d r e p o r t s Chemical a p p a r a t u s , etc Fuel a n d lights Incidental e x p e n s e s Printing, stationery and postage Salaries Seeds and trees Tools Wages P r e v e n t i o n of chinch b u g r a v a g e s Stock feeding and d a i r y i n g e x p e n d i t u r e s E x p e n s e s delegates to Knoxville Total $50 00 50 00 350 00 350 00 50 00 100 00 25 66 1,950 00 100 00 50 00 700 00 75 00 100 (»0 100 00 $4,050 00 $23 70 375 00 585 00 80 00 120 00 10 00 15 00 1,910 00 100 00 44 65 760 00 71 50 $4,094 85 $380 00 Deficits. Balances. $50 00 26 30

$25 00 235 Ott 3 > 00 < 20 00 10 00

10 00 40 00 5 35 75 00 100 00 28 50 $335 15

60 00

Balance of government appropriation, March 31, 1889, $4,070.52. Exhibit I) is the estimate for the fourth quarter of the year, ending June 30, 1889. Exhibit D.—Estimates for fourth quarter ending June 30, 1889:

Buildings a n d r e p a i r s . . . Board expense B o o k s and publications. Botanical a p p a r a t u s Bulletins.. Chemical a p p a r a t u s , etc. Fertilizers,. Fuel and lights Incidental expenses P r i n t i n g , stationery a n d postage.. Salari Seeds a n d t r e e s . Tools Wages P r e v e n t i o n of chinch b u g ' r a v a g e s .' — F e n c i n g for expei inients E x p e r i m e n t with fertilizers on c o r n in s o u t h e r n Illinois. Total. $100 00 40 00 100 00 30 00 250 00 75 00 60 00 100 00 40 00 25 d0 1,950 00 20 00 30 00 1,100 00

2-> 00 50 00 75 00

$4,070 00

Exhibit E is a list of the vouchers and warrants, Nos. 91-95 and 242-326 inclusive. Exhibit F is a statement of the recommendations of the Board of Direction as to experiments to be undertaken for the coming year; of the appointments of assistants; and of moneys to be appropriated, and lands to be used for the purposes of the Station. Exhibit F. Recommendations of the Board of Direction. The Board of Direction of the Agricultural Experiment Station asks of the Trustees of the University permission to undertake the following experiments, in addition to carrying forward those already authorized. 1. Oats, testing varieties. 2. Oats and wheat, a trial of the plan of growing them together. 3. Sugar beets and mangel-wurzels, cost of raising them, and value of the crop.