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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890
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64 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. I have not yet secured detailed estimates for the entomological laboratory, and have at present only to ask t h a t a place be assigned for it within convenient reach of my office. I t will be essentially a small conservatory—about forty by sixteen feet—the walls of wood and the roof of glass, with an office or work-room at the north end. A place near the University greenhouse would be satisfactory. Respectfully submitted, S. A. FORBES, Director of Laboratory. I present the quarterly report of Professor Morrow on the condition of the farm: FARM R E P O R T . U N I V E R S I T Y , CHAMPAIGN, I I I . , May 29, 1889. Dr. S. H. Peabody, Begent. SIR : The receipts of the farms for the three months ending June 1st, have been $669.89; the expenditures, $670.76. The work is well advanced for the season, and it is believed the farms in general, the stock and the crops are in rather better than the usual condition. F. D. Gardner, a student, has been engaged to work on the farm as foreman during my absence. He has been employed during two summers by us and has also worked for the Experiment Station. Respectfully submitted, G. E. MORROW, Professor of Agriculture. I present also the recommendations of the Board of Direction of the Experiment Station, with estimates, and ask your approval. A G R I C U L T U R A L E X P E R I M E N T STATION. The Board of Direction of the Agricultural Experiment Station asks authority of the Trustees of the University to undertake the following experiments and investigations: 1. An experiment to test the vitality of blue grass, red top, and timothy seeds. 2. An experiment to test the value of "second-cropping" by planting the experimental wheat plats, after the wheat has been harvested, part with corn and part with millet. 3. An experiment to determine the effect upon the corn of sowing rye in it at the last ordinary plowing, and at a later special seeding. 4. An experiment to determine the best method of eradicating the Canada thistle—the experiment to be tried at Mattoon. 5. An investigation of the "slobbers" in horses. 6. A limited series of digestion experiments with poultry. The Board of Direction asks authority to use for such purposes as may best subserve the interests of the Station, any unexpended balances of the Station funds appropriated for this fiscal year; and it also asks t h a t the Trustees appropriate and authorize it to expend during the first quarter of the fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1889, Station funds in amounts and for the purposes named below:
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