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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892
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208 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. PAPEB D—ESTIMATES. Quarter Ending March 31, 1892 Buildings and repairs Quarter Ending Buildings and repairs Board expense Books and publications Botanical apparatus Bulletins Chemical apparatus Fertilizers Fuel and lights Incidentals Printing, stationery, and postage Salaries Seeds and trees Tools and supplies Wages and teams Sundry— Dairying experiments Corn and wheat experiments Total '.. June 30, 1892. $500 00 40 00 150 00 150 00 6<>0 00 50 00 50 00 150 00 25 00 25 00 1,900 00 25 00 50 00 1,100 00 100 00 100 00 $5,015 00 $15 00 The Board of Direction will continue work on lines hitherto laid down and asks authority to take up two new experiments: 1. A test of sugar beets, the beets to be raised in at least one place in each of the three grand divisions of the state. 2. Testing varieties of vegetables. The Board of Direction reports t h a t it has made the following appointments of officers and assistants for the ensuing year, beginning April 1, 1892, and at the salaries named: Professor George E. Morrow, agriculturist Professor T. J. Burrill, horticulturist and botanist.. Professor S. A. Forbes, consulting entomologist.... Professor D. Mcintosh, consulting veterinarian Mr. E. H. Farrington, chemist Mr. G. W. McCluer, assistant horticulturist Mr. G. P. Clinton, assistant botanist , Mr. F. D. Gardner, assistant agriculturist 8300 00 300 00 1,800 1,320 850 900 00 00 00 00 The Board of Direction also reports t h a t it has re-appointed W. L. Pillsbury, Secretary for the ensuing year at a salary of $1,500—and to this appointment the consent of the Trustees is asked. Bespectfully submitted, G. E. MORROW, President Board oh Direction. I ask your approval of the recommendations contained in the foregoing report. Respectfully submitted, T. J. BURRILL, Acting Ue'.ent. On motion of Mr. McKay, the Experiment Station report was approved, authority was granted to undertake the new experiments named, appropriations were made as asked, and the reappointment of W. L. Pillsbun^ as Secretary of the Board of Direction at a salary of $ 1,500 a year was confirmed.
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