Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 92]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF T R U S T E E S . FARM R E P O R T .

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UNIVERSITY, Sept. 10, 1889.

Br. 8. H. Peabody, Begent: SIR: During the three months ending September 1st, the transactions of the University farm have aggregated as follows:

Receipts Expenditures.

financial

The expenditures have been the larger because of the harvest and threshing—fully completed—and some necessary purchases. The sales have been smaller than usual because of my absence. The hay and oats harvest was satisfactory. There is a prospect of a fine crop of corn. The potatoes are in good condition. The live stock has generally done well. The work during the quarter seems to me to have been well and economically done. The burning of the barn on the experiment farm, September 4th, was a serious misfortune. Aside from the buildings, there were burned about 60 tons of hay, 500 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of oats, together with harness, tools, etc., to the amount of about $100 to $125, not counting property of the Experiment Station. Respectfully submitted, G. E. MORROW. The quarterly report of the Experiment Station, with recommendations and estimates, is herewith presented. I believe t h a t the Station has settled down into regular, efficient, and useful work. I t is now issuing nearly 10,000 bulletins, quarterly, mostly to farmers in Illinois. The trial experiments at Flora, in the southern part of the state, indicate important results, which, if corroborated by subsequent experiments, will prove a very great service to the farmers in t h a t section. A second series of these trials is already begun.

REPORT OF T H E E X P E R I M E N T STATION.

To the Begent of the University of Illinois. SIR: The Board of Direction of the Experiment Station asks authority from the Board of Trustees to undertake the following work: 1. During the past year an experiment in relation to the effect of fertilizers upon wheat has been carried on at Flora by your authority. The Board of Direction proposes to repeat this experiment at Flora, and desires, with your consent, to undertake similar experiments at several other points. I t is proposed to expend upon these experiments during the year not more than one hundred dollars. 2. An experiment to test the vitality of seeds. 3. An experiment to test the durability of woods. 4. An experiment to test the deterioration of varieties. To carry on its operations until October 1, 1889, the Board of Direction asks t h a t Station funds be appropriated to its use:

F o r fuel a n d lights F o r incidental e x p e n s e For wages j i ! 850 00 25 00 300 00 $375 00