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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894
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168 UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS. College of engineering Mechanical engineering Physical and electrical engineering Civil engineering Testing laboratory Architecture Chemistry Zoology Geology Physiology College of literature Physical culture for women Music (piano) $170 00 3,237 00 3,500 00 2,750 00 6,075 00 1,000 00 1,100 00 1,841 00 740 00 150 00 500 00 210 00 300 00 $21,573 00 Besides this Professor Shea desires permission to employ a storekeeper for t h e physical laboratory at $25 a month. The documents themselves are herewith submitted for your further information as to the purposes and necessities of the indicated expenditures. I shall be glad to add anything I can to this information. I transmit herewith the report of Professor Morrow, from t h e college of agriculture, with which is t h e usual report of farm operations. I transmit also the report of the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Professor Morrow: U N I V E R S I T Y FARM AND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS, Sept. 12, 1893. Dr. T. J. Burrill, Acting Begent. D E A R SIR: I have the honor to present the following brief statement from the agricultural department, for t h e three months past: The receipts from the farm have been $1,004 18 The farm expenses have been 304 83 Balance to credit of farms $699 35 During t h e past three months, this region has had one of t h e most severe and protracted drouths ever known. This has modified plans, and has made sales of live stock more than usually difficult, added, as it has* been, to the general financial depression. In view of the circumstances the farm animals are in good condition, and the corn promises a larger yield than could have been expected. Without here giving any arguments in favor of the course proposed, I respectfully ask approval by the trustees of the holding, by . the college of agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station, of two short "schools" or extended institutes, each to continue one or two weeks; one to be held in northern Illinois, and to be mainly devoted to dairy interests; the other to be held in southern Illinois, and to be largely devoted to horticultural interests. The cooperation ot the State Dairymen's Association to be invited for the first, and t h a t of the State and Southern Illinois Horticultural societies to be asked for the second. I ask also t h a t a sum, not exceeeing $250, may be appropriated for t h e payment of necessary expenses of these meetings. The Experiment Station board has. expressed its approval and willingness to cooperate in the conduct of t h e meetings. I respectfully ask t h a t a delegate be appointed to represent t h e University at the annual meeting of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, to be held at Chicago, commencing: Tuesday, October 17th. Eespectfully submitted, Gr. E. MORROW, Professor of Agriculture..
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