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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 28,

these funds be allocated tentatively to the following projects in the approximate amounts indicated in each case: Forestry $3 000 00 Genetic Studies in Inheritance of Resistance to Disease 2 000 00 H o m e Accounts 720 00 Pasture Studies 500000 Rural Sociology 2 000 00 Spray Residue Studies including Metabolism and Physiological Effects of Lead and Arsenic a n d / or Other Spray Residues on the Animal B o d y . . 3 000 00 Weed Control 300000 Contingent 2 530 45 A detailed and itemized budget will be prepared on further study. In the meantime I recommend that the above allocations be approved and that the President of the University be authorized to approve for the Board of Trustees the detailed budget when submitted by the Director of the Agricultural Ex periment Station. This procedure is necessary in case the next meeting of the Board of Trustees is not held before the middle of October, in order that steps may be taken as soon as possible to secure suitable personnel for this work, once the budget has been prepared.

On motion of Mr. Barr, this recommendation was adopted, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Barr, Mr. Barrett, Mrs. Freeman, Mr. Mayer, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Williams; no, none; absent, Mr. Horner, Mr. Karraker, Mrs. Plumb, Mr. Wieland.

REGIONAL SOYBEAN LABORATORY (18) T h e United States Congress has appropriated $200,000 (one of the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Act) to the Department of Agriculture for the establishment and maintenance of regional research laboratories. T h e establishment of a regional soybean research laboratory has been under consideration by the College of Agriculture. Such a laboratory would serve to promote research in all phases of soybean production, processing, and utilization for the middlewestern states. T h e plan contemplates cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture and probably several states. I recommend that the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station be authorized to make formal application to the United States Department of Agriculture for the establishment of such a laboratory at the University with the understanding that there will be no commitment as to terms or conditions until these have been submitted Lo the Board of Trustees for approval.

On motion of Mr. Mayer, this recommendation was concurred in.

APPROPRIATION FOR UNIVERSITY WOODS (19) At the meeting of the Board on June 15, 1935 (Minutes, page 215), an appropriation of $7,500 was made from the General Reserve Fund for the fencing of the University W o o d s ; this was reappropriated at the meeting of the Board on July 26, 1935 (Minutes, page 359). T h e Faculty Committee on Natural Areas and Uncultivated Lands, which is in charge of this tract, feels that it is inadvisable to build a fence until additional land bordering the area can be purchased as a marginal protection against fire, and that the fence should be built outside of this marginal area. Since the appropriation to the University does not include any item for the purchase of land, it is out of the question to acquire these marginal areas during the present biennium. In view of this situation the Committee has recommended (1) the fencing of a small area within the woods to protect instruments, (2) repairs to the present fence, (3) the employment of watchmen to guard the woods at certain