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1899.]

PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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cultural College in the principles and practices connected with the cultivation of crops, the character and treatment of soils, the breeding, feeding, and management of domestic animals and the diseases to which they are subject, the operations of dairying, and the subjects of fruit growing, gardening, landscape gardening, and forestry, and the facilities for such instruction, it is the sense of this committee that these funds are to be limited absolutely to technical agriculture in the lines defined by the bill and that no portion shall be used directly or indirectly for instruction in any of the related arts or sciences even though they may form a necessary part of the full curriculum required of the agricultural student. Not only is this the legal position to be maintained by the Trustees, but circumstances require that immediate action should be taken in order properly to organize the new force required in the College. An additional amount to the general maintenance fund was appropriated in order that no other department should be crippled by the withdrawal of funds upon which they had depended. We therefore instruct the Business Manager that from the 1st of July, 1899,. the assignment of salaries and bills shall be made in strict accordance with. these provisions of the law. The Committee would also recommend the immediate publication of a special circular to present to the general public a statement of the courses of instruction offered, the conditions of admission, the facilities and methods of instruction and conditions of graduation, together with such other information as may be deemed necessary for the prospective student. It is also recommended that this circular be prepared by the Committee on Publication, and that the first edition be at least ten thousand copies, and that steps be taken by them for its thorough and immediate distribution through the additional influence and knowledge of the Farmers' Institute, and such other sources as the Committee on Publication may deem advisable. The Committtee would recommend an appropriation of $200.00 to defray the expense of the same, and that payment be made by the Business Manager upon order of the chairman of the Committee on Publication. The Committee recommends that the cost of this publication and the expense of mailing the same be charged to the agricultural fund.

PART B .

Your Committee would also report that upon careful study of many buildings, forming part and parcel, or of complete agricultural plants, it is their conviction that one large building with three wings would probably be the most desirable method of construction. They recommend that the building and the entire equipment, the architect's fees, and expense of recent trip of trustees, be defrayed from the sum of $150,000 appropriated, provided that said equipment include all fixtures for securing ventilation, compressed air, refrigeration, and power for running dairy and other machinery, all dairy and horticultural appurtenances, all appurtenances for the departments. Also that from this same appropriation the expense be paid of the tunnel and heating pipes to be taken from the point nearest to the proposed building, but that it shall not include the expense of any addition to the central heating plant. All fixed wall cases, desks, tables, sinks, and fittings for the laboratory work shall be so included; also in all lecture or assembly rooms where fixed seats are required, such furniture shall be supplied; also the entire outfit for the baths and the Domestic Science department. The accompanying plans are also submitted.

W. H. FULKERSON, Chairman,

F . L. HATCH, F. M. MCKAY, ALICE ASBURY ABBOTT,

Committee on

Agriculture.