Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 59]

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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS. General Balance Sheet of Business Departments.

Loss. Gain. $265 47 1,290 85"59 61 433 74 435 76 $2,485 43-

G r i g g s farm Horticultural department Chemical d e p a r t m e n t M a c h i n e and c a r p e n i e r s h o p s Total balances

Inventory

of Movable Property Belonging to the University

Department.

of Illinois,March 1,.U891.

TbtaL $13,876 60* 5,696 49 728 303.084 10 3,873 60 14,299 39 3,586 34 15,039 38 2,500 00 8,115 15 8,430 006,918 21 34,330 00 100 00 3,500 00 23,000 00 $147,077 56 7,965 15 $139,112 41

Articles Articles Enumerat'd. Estimated. 12,684 60 4,3<-2 93 728 30 3,084 10 1,373 60 4,218 86 3.486 34 14,248 05 7,865 6,430 6,818 34.330 15 00 21 00 $11,192 001 1,333 56 2,500 00 10,080 53 1 0 00 < 791 33 2,500 00 250 00 2,000 00 100 00 100 00 3,500 C O 23,000 00 $57,447 42

Agricultural Arcnitectu- al Ai t a n d d e s i g n Art g a l e r y Botanical Chemical Civil e n g i n e e r i n g Mechanical Mining Military M u s e u m natural history P h y s i c a l laboratory Library Blue p r i n t i n g laboratory Furniture Heating apparatus

$89,630 14 Belonging to United States Total belonging to University

T H E E X P E R I M E N T STATION OF T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS.

On the first of April next the Experiment Station will" enter upon t h a fourth year of its labors. Were it not more definitely required in the " P l a n of Organization," it would certainly be appropriate t h a t a brief review of the work of the Station should find a place in this report. I t is not necessary to explain the plan upon which the Station was organized, or the means chosen to keep it in touch with the leading organizations t h a t represent the interests of those producing value from the soil. The arrangements have ceitainly produced fairly good results. The Station and its officers have everywhere received kindly recognition and reasonable co-operation. The state is very broad, and its interests widely diversified. The Station has sought to know, and to provide for, so far as its means would allow, these varied and diverse interests. If any one of them, having its own necessities most near its vision and its sympathy, has ever felt t h a t it was getting less than its needs demand, the fact t h i t each of the others has participated, in some degree, in the same feeling, may be taken as fairly good evidence that, after all, the Station was honestly seeking to deal fairly by all in the apportionment of itslabors. In one particular, certainly unavoidable, the Station has suffered, namely, in the frequent changes made in its chemical workers; this has. been most seriously felt in the department of dairying experimentation. Another misfortune occurred in the burning of th^ barn devoted t > experimental work, with its adjuncts of sheds, and dairy house. Some t e m porary substitutes were provided, but the proper restoration awaits legislative aid.