Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 43]

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UNIVERSITY OF

ILLINOIS.

4. Corn, the effect of fertilizers upon. The purpose is to conduct this experiment upon a light soil at some convenient point in southern Illinois. 5. Grass lands [meadow and pasture], tests of the use of fertilizers upon. 6. Pigs, cost of production, and rate of growth from birth. 7. Cross fertilization of plants, testing the effects of. 8. Fruits, production of new varieties from seeds. Authority is also asked to determine the percentage of water in such samples of corn raised in Illinois as may be sent to the Station by persons who make entry for a premium in the Prize Crop Competition conducted by the American Agriculturist. The Board of Direction recommends to the Trustees of the University the reappointment of Thos. F. Hunt, assistant agriculturist. George W. McCluer, assistant horticulturist. Albert G. Manns, first assistant chemist, and Harry S. Grindley, second assistant chemist of the Station, for the ensuing year, beginning April 1, 1889. To carry on the operations of the Station, appropriations of Station funds are asked to the amount of three hundred and eighty dollars ($380.00) for the current quarter, and to the amount of four thousand and seventy dollars ($4,070.00) for the fourth quarter of the year, as set forth in detail in the financial statement for this quarter and the estimates for the next quarter presented herewith as exhibits C and D. The lands desired are: 1. Those in use last year. 2. About 10 acres on experimental farm, and the grass land in the forest plantation. 3. One or two acres on the northwest portion of the stock farm for trial of fertilizers on grass. Authority is asked to purchase chemical apparatus and supplies for the next year to the amount of $250. In order to secure these supplies free of duty charges, they must be procured abroad, and they must be ordered soon if they are to be imported before autumn. I t will probably be well to get these supplies at the same time when the University supplies are bought. All of which is respectfully submitted on behalf of the Board of Direction. S. H. PEABODY, President of the Board. The report of sales of Nebraska lands is herewith presented.

NEBRASKA LANDS.

The sales of Nebraska lands since the last annual report are as follows:

Price. 58. 59. 60. 61. Eilert Mulhausen, N E U 3-2-8.149.29 P r a n k Havlina, N % SE % 26 3 8. 80 J a m e s Havlina, S % SE M 26-3-8, 80 Adolph Marquandt, N E M 3-2-8, 147, a a a 91 a Cash paid.

$466 400 400 548 53 00 00 88

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$1,866 12! „_,

1,000 00| 1,000 00 1,848 88

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£1,815 41