Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 409]

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1919]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

4QS

To properly develop our courses of instruction in vegetable.production and marketing, we need to grow quite large areas of certain crops, and to store the products on a commercial basis. Experimental work on methods of storing vegetables is also greatly needed in order that we may meet the demands for information on this subject made by both commercial growers and home gardeners who are seeking to supply their tables in winter as well as summer with vegetables of their own tproduction. Considerable storage space, under controlled conditions of temperature and moisture, are needed for such work, and should be provided for in connection with the proposed building. Yours very truly,

J. W. LLOYD

Chief in Olericulture March 6,1919 Professor J. C. Blair, Department of Horticulture

DEAR PROFESSOR BLAIR:

Please allow me to call your attention again to the necessity of providing sindoor working space for the Division of Pomology. Our needs are as follows; 1. Spray laboratory comprising (a) Manufacturing room (b) Machinery demonstration room (c) Insecticide and fungicide laboratory (d) Housing for field spray outfits 2. Fruit packing room accommodating Sizing machinery, sorting tables, and packages 3. Plant for fruit manufactures and by-products, comprising (a) Canning factory (b) Fruit-juice plant (c) Evaporator 4. Cold storage (a) For experimentation on temperatures, ventilation, changes in storage, time of preservation, etc. (b) To hold fruit for class demonstration and study (c) To permit satisfactory handling of large amounts of fruit which will be produced on the new plantation 5. Special student accommodations (a) Class room convenient to manufacturing, storage, and packing plant (b) Tool and locker rooms (c) Lavatory 6. Offices reasonably near our work (a) Rooms for staff of ten (b) Record rooms with vault (c) Stenographer's room 7. Museum 8. Glass houses (a) for staff research on the relations of light, heat, fertility, and moisture to pruning, pollination, and nutrition of bruits (b) for graduate laboratories in which 'thesis prdblems may *be worked (c) for demonstration of the culture df fruits underclass (d) for undergraduate class demonstrations on 'planting, 'pollination, propagation, etc. 9. Research laboratory for pomology to be a combination of botanical and dhemiGal laboratory located in conjunction with the glass houses 10. Division library The spray laboratory, thefruit packing^room, the ^lanttfor^ruitimanufactupers and by-products, the cold storage, the special student accommodations, and tpossibty the