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OP ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 11,

September 10, 191k. President Edmund J. James3 University of Illinois. DEAR S I R : At a meeting of the Board of Trustees held on July 11, 1914, "the Comptroller was authorized to take a lease on the building occupied by the School of Pharmacy for two years from April 30, 1915, at the present rental of six thousand dollars per year, with the condition that the University may give u p the property at the end of one year from April 30, 1915, upon payment of one thousand dollars to make the annual rental seven thousand dollars for the year ending April 30, 1916." Under this authority of the Board of Trustees, I have signed a lease on behalf of the Board of Trustees for the present quarters of the School of Pharmacy (three and one-half upper floors of the building at the northwest corner of Twelfth Street and Michigan Avenue, with entrance from Twelfth Street) for the two years from May 1, 1915, to April 30, 1917, a t a rental of five hundred dollars per month (six thousand dollars per year). The lease provides that the Board of Trustees shall have the privilege of terminating the lease at the end of the first year, April 30, 1916, by giving the owners four months' previous notice in writing of its intention so to do. There is to be no additional payment if the lease is terminated at the end of the first year. Very truly yours, ' Attention is called to the fact that the Comptroller secured better terms than we had hoped to do. I think he deserves credit for this successful negotiation.

GEORGE E. FRAZER, 'Comptroller.

This report was received for record.

A D V I S O R Y C O M M I T T E E S , C O L L E G E OF A G R I C U L T U R E .

(10) A communication from Dr. Eugene Davenport, Dean of the College of Agriculture, nominating the following Advisory Committees for the College of Agriculture: Dairy Husbandry. Horticulture. Charles Poss, Cedarville. J. Mack Tanner, Flora. Joseph Newman, Elgin. H. A. Aldrich, Neoga. R. B. Swift, Libertyville. H. M. Dunlap, Savoy. F. G. Austin, Effingham. August Geweke, Des Plaines. J. P. Mason, Elgin. W. S. Perrine, Cehtralia. Floriculture. Farm Qrops. H. E. Smith, Danville. Charles Rowe, Jacksonville. J. C. Vaughan, Chicago. A. A. Hill, Casner. W. N. Rudd,' Morgan Park. A. C. Rice, Jacksonville. F. !L. Washburn, Bloomington. H. J. Sconce, Sidell. J. F . Ammann, Edwardsville. I have not.yet received nominations from the Live Stock Breeders' Association. With this exception, and the one yet to be chosen for the Crop Committee, the list is now complete.

On the recommendation of President James and on motion of Mrs. Henrotin, the committees were appointed as nominated above.

ACTIVITIES UNDER T H E LEVER BILL.

(11) A recommendation from the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station relating to the completion of the organization and the proposed projects for work under the Lever Bill. An agent of the Department of Agriculture visited the University a few days ago for the double purpose of discussing projects under the Lever Bill and the methods of procedure in our cooperative work with the department. It appears that the Secretary of Agriculture is disposed to construe the Lever Bill rather strictly a s a demonstration measure in agriculture and home economics, to the exclusion of instruction in all forms. This construction of the department we feel inclined not only to recognize but to uphold in the future, because it would leave all forms of our educational activity entirely free from their dominance. I t also appears that it is highly desirable to devote a portion of the Lever money to extending the work of the county advisor and that by doing so we shall' be able to cooperate in this, which is their distinctive work, even more thoroughly than if we should hold ourselves aloof from that particular line of work. Another advantage in devoting some of the Lever money to the county advisory system is that under those conditions the Department of Agriculture will be bound to consider the funds raised by the various counties as constituting the State equivalent of the Federal appropriation. Inasmuch as the amounts raised by the counties from subscription and otherwise is far in excess of the amounts likely to arise from the Lever Funds, we should not, under those conditions, be obliged to ask the Legislature for specific appropriations on account of the Lever Bill. In this way we should effectually protect our mill tax and avoid the necessity of injuring the development of the University a t any point by the necessity of asking for direct appropriation. All things considered, therefore, we deem it wise to devote a small portion of the funds this year, and more in the succeeding years, to this particular line of work. Under our articles of cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, we would, as soon as the organization can be completed, take over the management of all the county advisory work. They require that this management should be centered in a State Leader. This State Leader may be appointed directly by the department to be quartered by us, in which case he will be a Civil. Service appointee of theirs, or we may select the State Leader ourselves on the "half and half" basis. That is to say, they would pay half of the salary and estimated traveling