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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 18

AGREEMENT WITH NIAGARA SPRAYER AND CHEMICAL COMPANY FOR INVESTIGATION OF AGRICULTURAL FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES (33) A recommendation from the Dean of the College of Agriculture for the approval of an agreement with the Niagara Sprayer and Chemical Company, Incorporated, for a special industrial investigation _ of the effects of certain agricultural fungicides and insecticides on various insect pests of fruit trees, specifically the scab and codling moth, to be conducted by the Agricultural Experiment Station and the State Natural History Survey Division. The agreement is not drawn for any definite period but becomes effective upon its execution. T h e Company agrees to pay the sum of $1,000 and to provide without cost the necessary special materials for this investigation. The agreement conforms in all essential respects to the conditions and regulations of the Board governing such investigations. On motion of M r s . P l u m b , the execution of this agreement was authorized. PURCHASE AND SALE OF SECURITIES (34) T h e Comptroller reports that in accordance with the authorization of the Board at its meeting on March 10 the following securities, representing investments of the University endowment funds, have been sold: $5,000 State of Illinois Highway Bonds 4% due March 1, 1943 at 111H (a profit of $48.61 over book value) $5,000 State of Illinois Highway Bonds 4% due May I, 1947 at 1 1 4 ^ (a profit of $113.01 over book value) and that by direction of the Finance Committee the following security has been purchased as replacement: $10,000 Sanitary District of Chicago, 4% Series B Refunding Bond 1935, maturing January 1, 1955; optional January I, 1947, at 103.

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PURCHASES RECOMMENDED (35) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: 1. Three hundred and sixty 4-inch No. 9 gauge i8-foot seamless steel boiler tubes from the A. M. Castle & Company, Chicago, at a price of $2,303.08, f.o.b. Urbana. 2. Equipment for batching concrete from C. S. Johnson Company, Champaign, at a total cost of $1,940.00 net, f.o.b. Urbana, as follows: ( a ) one 70cubic yard, three-compartment, portable sectional batching bin, 105-ton capacity; (b) one i-cubic yard road builders batcher. This equipment is to be used for accurately batching dry aggregates for concrete and for weighing out rock and sand from the Physical Plant Department's stores supply of building materials. 3. Venetian blinds for the New Agriculture Building, Mathematics Building, and the offices of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Lincoln Hall, from the Mackin Venetian Blind Co., Kankakee, at a price of $3,270.52, including installation charges. Competitive quotations were secured from eight manufacturers and dealers. Although there were two lower bidders, it is the opinion of the Physical Plant Department and the Purchasing Agent that the Mackin blind is of superior construction and will prove more satisfactory and economical than those of the lower bidders. 4. One car mixed lumber (15,500 board feet of various sizes of Red Oak, White Oak, Birch, White Pine, Redwood, and Cypress) from T. A. Foley Lumber Company, Paris, Illinois, the low bidder, at a price of $1,698.75. 5. Two cars (31,000 board feet) Douglas Fir Lumber from Edward Hines Lumber Company, Chicago, the low bidder, at a price of $1,324.50. 6. Five hundred barrels Portland cement in paper sacks for the Physical Plant Department from M. L. Hecker, of Champaign, the low bidder, at a price of $2.30 per barrel, or a total of $1,150.00. 7. Air conditioning equipment for experimental and instructional purposes in the College of Engineering (a plant with an air capacity of 3,000 cubic feet