Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 411]

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1919]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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are a number of problems concerning pollination, fruit development and tree growth that should be worked out, but which can be undertaken only when adequate laboratory facilities are available. Another need that is becoming increasingly important as results begin to accrue from the breeding work is that of convenient storage of tools and appliances within easy reach of the plantations. Perhaps the greatest need is that of cold storage for fruits. The only way to determine accurately the results of particular combinations of parents is by actual com. parison of parent fruits with those of hybrid progeny and this is only possible when cold storage is available because of the wide differences in season of fruits of similar parentage. Within a given group of hybrid seedlings maturities of fruits may range from July 1 to October 15 and only through cold storage can the early fruits be preserved for comparison with the later. One parent may mature fruits early, the other late; the progeny may include individuals exceeding the early fruiting parent in earliness, the late fruiting parent in lateness and others whose maturities fall on various intermediate dates. Certain parental combinations are represented by large numbers of hybrid progeny exhibiting differences so intangible that they can only be described from direct comparison, and, as determination of ratios of descent are essential in any study of the transmission of characters possessed by parents, I know of no way of reaching accurate conclusions except by actual comparison between fruits of parents and progeny. This is impossible except through preservation of fruits of early maturity until those of late maturity reach a proper degree of development. This preservation is possible through cold storage, hence, as it seems to me, success of the chief feature of apple breeding depends upon the early availability of cold storage facilities. A building providing laboratory, tool-room, and cold storage in proximity to the orchards would effect a large saving in time and effort, admit better work and greatly aid in advancing the various projects that have been undertaken. I t , therefore, seems to me that everything possible should be done to expedite construction of such a building. Very truly yours,

C. S. CRANDALL

No action was taken in this matter.

RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING STUDY OF COOPERATION Resolutions adopted by the Danville Cooperative Society. WHEREAS, the Co-Operative movement is making such progress in the United States as to warrant serious attention from all intelligent citizens; WHEREAS, the merits of this movement have been admitted by representatives of nearly every group in the nation; and WHEREAS, Governor Lowden has publicly declared that the movement deserves a place in the public school curriculum of Illinois, THEREFORE, BEIT RESOLVED by the Danville Co-Operative Society that the trustees of the University of Illinois be requested to recognize the need of serious study of this movement by giving its theoretical and practical aspects a definite place in the courses of the Department of Economics or Home Economics of the University of Illinois; RESOLVED, also, that the trustees be requested to make provision for instruction in the principles of co-operation in the short course in Home Economics, whenever the short course shall be revised. (9)

These resolutions were received for record and the President of the University was instructed to inform the Society of the attention already given to this subject in the courses offered by the University.

C U R B L I N E A T M A T H E W S AVENUE AND G R E E N S T R E E T (10) A report of the committee appointed to consider the requestof the City Council of UrbanaSJthat the University make certain changes in the curb line on Green Street (see page!332).