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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892
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290 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Bulletin No. 17, August, 1891, 16 pp. Experiments with Wheat, 1890-9L Daily Variations in Milk and Butter Production of Cows. Bulletin TVo. 18, November, 1891, 16 pp. Dairying Experiments. Bulletin No. 19, February, 1892, 16 pp. Experiments with Oats, 1891. The Chinch Bug in Illinois, 1891-92. Bulletin No. 20, April, 1892, 32 pp. Field Experiments with Corn, 1891. Bulletin No. 21, May, 1892, 32 pp. Horticulture, a General Report. Corn Crossing. Sweet Corn, Thickness of Planting, 1891. The Late Season and the Corn Crop. N E W WORK, Upon recommendation of the Board of Direction of the Station, new work has been authorized as follows: September 8, 1890. . 1. To determine the effect of adding water to fresh milk upon the rising of the cream. 2. In propagating apple trees, to compare the methods by whole and by piece roots. December 8, 1890. 1. To make a chemical analysis of two feeds, germ meal and oat dust feed. 2. Apple trees, testing the effects of pruning. 3. Plants, testing the effects of self and cross fertilization of. 4. Wheat, tests of varieties. June 9, 1891. 1. To improve and produce varieties of cereals. 2. To investigate the strength and composition of fibre plants. March 8, 1892. 1. The test of sugar beets, the beets to be raised at least in one place in each of the three grand divisions of the state. 2. Testing varieties of vegetables. June 27, 1892. To investigate methods of preventing smut in wheat. E X P E R I M E N T S CONTINUED A N D U N D E R T A K E N . The following table gives the number and title of each experiment t h a t has been in hand during the two years; and in the first column to the right of each title is given the year when the experiment was begun; in the second those which have been completed within the year are marked with a cross (x); in the third, the experiments in progress are marked the same way; and in the last column is stated in which bulletin, or bulletins, a report upon the experiment may be found, if any has been published.
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