Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 219]

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ending March 1,. 1919 to Mr. L. A. Coffee. Last summer Protessor Mosier, who has charge of the operation of the Smith farms, directed Mr. Coffee to put in a crop of wheat, not being certain of course that a sale of the land would be effected. Mr. Coffee proceeded to do this, in addition to some other work in connection with crops for 1919. It seems that no definite understanding was had between Professor Mosier and Mr. Coffee as to the possibility of the sale of the place, or as to the value of the work which Mr. Coffee was directed to do in such event. Mr. Coffee now insists that a considerable amount be allowed him on account of what he claims will be damages resulting from his being obliged to move and lose the benefits of the crops which he has put in. The purchaser of the place, Mr. Elmer Ehler, has made a proposition offering to assume the whole affair with Mr. Coffee and to make such adjustments with him . as are necessary, for the total sum of $500.00. The amount claimed by Mr. Coffee as due him is $1,200, and he has indicated that he will carry the matter into court unless satisfactory adjustments can be made. Professor Mosier agrees that the proposition made by Mr. Ehler is a reasonable one and Judge Harker recommends that the matter be settled in this way if possible, rather than allow it to come to legal proceedings. I may say in this connection however that all necessary legal steps in the matter such as proper notices to the tenant for possession March 1st, etc., have been covered, in accordance with instructions from Judge Harker. I recommend that I be authorized to pay Mr. Elmer Ehler, the proposed purchaser of this farm, the sum of $500.00, in consideration of which he will undertake to make full adjustment with the tenant of the place, this payment to be made from the income of the Smith farms for the current year, on account of which there is now ' a balance of approximately $4,000.00. Cordially yours,

LLOYD MOREY

These: matters were referred to the President of the University with power to act. HOG CHOLERA SERUM LABORATORY

(16) Letters from Dean Davenport and Mr. Charles AdkinSj Director of the State Department of Agriculture at Springfield, concerning the transfer of the Hog Serum Laboratory at Springfield from the Department of Agriculture to the University of Illinois. November 19, 1918 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois

M Y DEAR M R . PRESIDENT:

The question of transferring to the University for research purposes the laboratory originally established at Springfield for the manufacturing of hog cholera serum has been under discussion for a number of months. Director Adkins and we agree t h a t the line of demarcation between the duties of the Department at Springfield and the University is a line between regulatory and research work. Director Adkins therefore proposes that this laboratory should be transferred to the University for pathological purposes, and I am now in correspondence for the