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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900
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216 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, [Sept. 12, That the College herd, the dairy, the barns, the horses, except as hereafter specified, the sheep, and whatever other stock maybe necessary in supplying1 the facilities for teaching: technical agriculture in all its branches, shall be maintained from the agricultural fund recently defined by statute, one-half of which, $12,000 or more, has by action of the Board been set aside for facilities for instruction and maintenance. That the receipts arising from the College herd and dairy, and from animals bred at the barns shall be credited to the agricultural fund. That the College herd be increased by the purchase of at le&st four specimens of registered stock, not now represented, and the commercial value of the dairy increased by the purchase of at least six new milch animals of good breed, to the end that the profits from the dairy shall cover the cost of maintenance of all the animals required. That whenever experiments are conducted in animal husbandry the expense shall be paid from Experiment Station funds, including cost of feed and labor. No charge shall be made against the Experiment Station or room for teams or for space for any reasonable number of cattle for temporary experiments. That two teams be maintained for experimental farm uses and when purchased shall be paid for from Station funds and maintained from the same. That the present dairy team be turned over without cost to the University for the use of the College of Agriculture. That the wages of the teamsters caring for the respective teams shall be paid from the fund maintaining the teams for the specific purposes defined above. That the wages of any other men at the horse barn be paid from the agricultural fund. The wages of the head cattle man to be divided equally between the two funds, as in case of experiments he would be charged with the feeding. That the 1G0 acres more or less south of the University campus shall be known as the north farm. It shall be conducted solely as a laboratory for the College of Agriculture and the Experiment Station, and the exnense for the same shall be paid from both funds in such proportion as shall be fixed by the appropriations made by the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of the Dean of the College and the Director of the Station. THE DAIRY. T h e receipts for year e n d i n g J u l y 1,1899 Approximate expense for same period without cost of feed for cattle Balance $2,846 91 1,535 58 $1,311 33 It is difficult to get at cost of feed for cattle as this was bought for all animals at barns and stable at the same time. But there is in this expense account the cost of the feed of the dairy team, coal, ice, repairs, bottles, soap, labor in the dairy, which has nothing to do with the barn, but which is $40 a month for a man, who cares for milE and drives the team, and $50 for extra, labor. VALUE OF STOCK OWNED BY UNIVERSITY. Value Value Value Value of of of of horses cattle., sheep.. swine.. $610 00 3,360 00 155 00 50 00 $4,175 00 Total, An inventory of animals owned by the University and by the Experiment Station is herewith presented. The Committee recommends as a general policy that the breeding herd of cattle include two breeds, Shorthorns and fiolstein-Friesians, but that specimens of other breeds be obtained from time to time by purchase or loan.
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