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1913]

PE00EEDI2STGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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instead of the present $10,000. In making this estimate I am supposing that the University will assume the expenses involved in the safer location and permanent protection of the State Laboratory collections, since these have cost it nothing thus far and will be made as available for general university purposes of instruction and investigation as if they had been obtained for these purposes by the University itself. Respectfully submitted,

STEPHEN A. FORBES, Director.

STOCK JUDGING PAVILION: BIDS. At 3:00 P.M., at which hour on this date the bids on the Stock Judging Pavilion were due, these bids were received from. the office of the State Architect, and were opened. They were found to be as follows: SCHEDULE OF BIDS—STOCK JUDGING PAVILION. English A. W. N. H. E. L. Alternates. Bros. Stoolman. Shields. Scheidenhelm. A. Complete building, 7 months. $90,000 00 $94,900 00 $112,409 00 B. Complete building, 8 months. 89,500 00 $89,983 00 93,938 00 112,000 00 C. Add for subst. of terra cotta for wood cornice and plastered the partition in arcade corridor 2,000 00 1,905 00 1,905 00 1,827 00 D. Deduct, for subst. of sheet for plate glass for balconytransom windows 250 00 182 00 100 00 90 00 E. Deduct, for omission for reinforced concrete work, iron pipe rails, and steam heating and piping 10,000 00 11,526 00 9,535 00 18,197 00 F. Add, per cu. yd. of additional excavation 1 00 65 1 00 75 G. Add, per cu. ft. of additional concrete work 25 30 35 40 H. (Optional) Add, for subst. of J 127 00 ) cast concrete for terra cotta ; , £ 57 00 j I. (Optional) Deduct, for subst. of optional steel truss design 1,875 00 1,275 00 1,895 00 On motion of Mr. Meeker, it was voted to refer these bids to the Executive Committee and the State Architect, with instructions to accept alternative " B " minus "E," and with power to act. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Anthony, Mrs. Bahreriburg, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Meeker; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Deneen, Mr. Moore. At this point Mr. Anthony withdrew. i METHOD OF PAYMENT FOR DAIRY MATERIALS.

Mr. Grout, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, presented the following letter from Mr. N. W. Hepburn, of the Department of Dairy Husbandry, with the recommendation that the method outlined therein of making payment for milk and cream used in the work in dairy manufactures be approved; this matter having been referred to the chairman of the Finance Committee for recommendation at the meeting of December 19, 1912 (p. 149): Dean E. Davenport, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. MY DEAR DEAN DAVENPORT: The following is a brief outline of the system now used by the Dairy Department in paying farmers for milk and cream delivered to the University for making butter and cheese in connection with class and experimental work. Payments are made twice each month through the regular channels of the business office. The method consists in issuing a voucher to each farmer, at the end of each half mdnth, from dairy husbandry office. These vouchers, in turn, are forwarded to the business office, where checks are drawn for the amount called for on each voucher. This, and securing the signatures on checks, takes about two weeks, which means that a farmer delivering a can of cream the first of the month must wait about four weeks for payment. This delay is caused from the fact that these vouchers must pass through eight (8) offices and eleven (11) clerks before payment can be made. This method has been satisfactory until local creameries and centralizers changed their business system and began sending personal solicitors into the more remote territories and paying for each Can of cream the same day it is delivered.