Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900 [PAGE 398]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

lo the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—The energies of the Agricultural Experiment Station for the past two years have been directed chiefly along the following lines: The comparative efficiency of individual cows as to their ability to produce milk and fat from a given amount of food; the value of silage in beef production; the effect of an addition of small amounts of gluten meal to the corn ration in feeding for beef; the sources of contamination of milk; influence of selection upon the chemical composition of corn; effect of in-breeding upon corn; effect of de-tasseling and of deep and shallow cultivation; investigation into the types and breeds of corn raised in Illinois; suitability of Illinois for sugar production; various methods of treating seed oats for the prevention of smut; the fungous enemies of fruits and flowers; spraying fruit trees for canker worm and for apple scab; effect of spraying during bloom of fruit trees upon the lives of honeybees; characteristics of a great number of varieties of apples and grapes; the winter killing of fruit trees, and the publication of the following bulletins and circulars: Bulletin No. 53, 18,000, July, 1898,52 pp. The Chemistry of the Corn Kernel. Bulletin No. 54, 18,000, March, 1899, 24 pp. Spraying Apple Trees with Special reference to Apple Scab Fungus. Bulletin No. 55, 18,000, June, 1899. Improvement in the Chemical Composition of the Corn Kernel. Bulletin No. 56; 18,000, July, 1899. Recent Work on the San Jose Scale in Illinois. Bulletin No. 57, 18,000, March, 1900. The Smuts of Illinois Agricultural Plants. Bulletin No. 58, 18,000, April, 1900. Composition and Digestibility of Corn Fodder and Corn Stover. Bulletin No. 59, 18,500, April, 1900. Orchard Management. Annual Beports, 1897-8 and 1898-9, 1,000 copies of 1897-8, and 500 copies of 1898-9. Circular No. 11, July 1898, 1,000. Special Precautions for Producing Pure Milk in Hot Weather. Circular No. 12, October, 1898, 1,000. Special Instructions for Taking Samples of Sugar Beets for Analysis. Circular No. IS, December, 1898. A Study of the Milk Supply of Chicago. Circular No. Id, February, 1899, 1,000. Sugar Beet Experiments in Illinois. Circular No. 15, March, 1899, 1,000. Green Feed for Summer Drought. Circular No. 16, April, 1899, 1,000. Sugar Beet Seed, Seed Corn tested, etc. Circular No. 17, October, 1899. Special Instructions for Taking Samples of Sugar Beets for Analysis.