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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. > REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.

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CHICAGO, J u n e 27, 1899.

lo the Board of Irustess of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN :-^Your Committee on Agriculture recommends that of the amount credited to the Agricultural College from the proceeds of the Morrill acts, one-half be expended for salaries and one-half for appliances. That the Business Manager charge salaries paid as follows:

Against the Experimental Station fund— Professor Davenport Professor Burrill Professor Holden — Professor Blair Mr. Clinton Mr. Fraser Professor Shattuck, Business Manager W. L. Pillsbury, Editor Against the Agricultural College fundProfessor Davenport Professor Burrill Professor Mcintosh Professor Holden Professor Blair. Mr. Frazer Mr. Clinton Captain Clark ; Miss Maxwell, clerk and stenographer..

$1,250 00 500 00| 850 00 675 00 600 00) 550 00| 200 00 300 00 $4,925 00 $1,250 00 500 00 900 00 850 001 675 00 550 00 200 00 200 00 480 00 $5,605 00

That the salary of Miss Mclntyre, stenographer of the Station, be $780 a year, to be paid from the Experiment Station funds. This leaves a balance of about $6,400 from the proceeds of the Morrill bills which may be applied to salaries. The Committee recommends that the salary of the field assistants already employed be divided equally between the Experiment Station and the College of Agriculture, and that of Mr. Shamel's pay be increased from$33.33 to $45 a month; also that the field assistant in the horticultural department be paid $35 a month. Both these amounts to come from appropriations for labor. Your Committee recommends that Mr. W. D. Gibbs, now of Ohio State University, be appointed associate professor of soil physics at a salary of $1,600 a year, to be paijl from the College of Agriculture fund. Your Committee recommends that Frederick Crane, a graduate of Michigan Agricultural College this year, be engaged to serve as assistant in the field and machinery department at $35 a month. This recommendation is made for the purpose of getting trained men who will develop. Mr. Crame will take a special course at Wisconsin during the summer if we employ him. Eespectfully submitted,

W. H . FULKERSON, ALICE ASBURY ABBOTT,

Committee on Agriculture. Bills for expenses i n c u r r e d by visiting a g r i c u l t u r a l d e p a r t m e n t s of other i n s t i t u t i o n s were allowed as follows: E. Davenport, $79.50; P. G. Holden, $79.50; Mrs. Alice A. Abbott, $91.25; Mrs Mary Turner Carriel, $92.34; T. J. Burrill, $81.60; F. L. Hatch, $84.44. A p p r o p r i a t i o n s were m a d e as r e c o m m e n d e d b y t h e B u s i n e s s M a n ager.