Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 93]

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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS.

The Board of Direction asks authority to undertake these new experiments: 1. To improve and produce varieties of cereals. 2. To investigate t h e strength and composition of fibre plants. By order of the Board of Direction of t h e Experiment Station.

SELIM H. PEABODY, President. FARM REPORT. URBANA, I I I . , J u n e 4, 189L

Dr. S. PL. Peabody, Eegent, SIR: During the three months ending June 1, 1891, t h e receipts for sales from the University farms have been $1,30.3 10 The expenditures have been 545 97 Leaving balance to credit of farms of , $757 1.3 The receipts may be classified thus: Horses, $350; cattle, $407.53; pigs, $68.13; seed corn, $210.59; hay, $209.20; clover seed, $37.65; miscellaneous, $20.00. The expenditures may be classified thus: Labor, $409.86: live stock, $55.00; feed, $30.20; seeds, $14.78; machinery, repairs, and miscellaneous, $36.13. The farm work is well advanced. Corn, oats, and grass are suffering for lack of rain. The live stock is, in general, in good health and condition. Respectfully submitted,

G. E. MORROW, Professor of Agriculture. STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY. U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS, J u n e 8, 1891.

To the Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: I have t h e honor to report concerning the appropriation bill for t h e Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History now pending before t h e legislature (a copy of which is transmitted herewith) t h a t i t has passed the Senate by a unanimous vote, and t h a t it is now on its second reading in t h e House, where i t has been favorably reported by t h e appropriations committee. I t has received but one amendment, and this in t h e form of an addition (proposed by t h e Senate committee on appropriations) of $600 for the publication of additional copies of t h e first volume of t h e Natural History Survey of t h e State. The entire amount of t h e bill as it stands, is $14,100 for the two years; an increase of $2,600 over t h e appropriation of the last session. I have to recommend the following salary list for t h e Laboratory staff during t h e coming two years ^conditioned (in such way as t h e Trustees may deem best) upon passage of t h e Laboratory appropriation bill substantially as now pending: Professor T. J. Burrill, $200 per annum; Mr. John Marten, $1,000 per annum; Mr. C. A. Hart, $750 per annum; Miss M. J. Snyder, $750 per annum; Mr. H. S. Brode, $200 per annum.

* The bill was passed June 10, without change, with the following allowances: For field, office, and incidental expenses For library For salaries and assistance For publication of bulletins For illustration of report of Entomologist For printing and binding additional copies of Vol. 1 of Natural History Survey of Illinois SI,500 per annum. 1,000 3,500 500 500 600