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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

MICHAEL ERNEST W I L L I A M S JAMES W I L L I A M W I L L N E R EDWARD W I L S O N W I L L I A M G. WOLTERS

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ROBERT DONALD THORNE ANDREW N I C K T Z A K I S P A U L H E N R Y WALGENBACH E D W I N CLARENCE W E B E R GERALD ALPHEUS W I L L I A M S

The Committee also recommends that the following persons be awarded the certificate under Section 5 of the Accountancy Act of 1943; they hold unrevoked C.P.A. certificates issued by other states or territories of the United States:

JOHN HAMILTON BUCHANAN ( I n d . ) LEONARD R A Y M C C A L L ( I n d . ) MERLIN JACOB MEYTHALER ( W i s . ) J U L I A N ORVILLE P H E L P S ( N . Y . ) H E N R Y JOSEPH R E H N ( W a s h . )

I concur.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, these certificates were awarded as recommended.

SALE O F COOK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION (4) Since 1925, the Agricultural Experiment Station has been operating a substation in Cook County for the purpose of studying vegetable and floral crop production problems in northern Illinois. T h e Station consists of twenty acres of land south of DesPlaines, Illinois 1 purchased at a cost of $16,000. Improvements include a house costing $10,442.63, a tool shed costing $1,193.64, a greenhouse costing $11,706.73, tile drainage, and extension of electric service lines (for which the University was reimbursed by the utility company) and other improvements. The total capital investment in this Station is $42,283.89. The Cook County Experiment Station was established pursuant to an act of the General Assembly in 1923, which also appropriated $25,000 for this purpose. The DesPlaines site was selected, after experiments were carried on in the spring of 1924 in different localities in Cook County and after more than fifty farms were inspected. From 1925 to 1935, inclusive, the General Assembly made separate appropriations for the operation of this Station. Since then funds for it have been included in the University's biennial budgets. During the past twenty-five years experiments have been conducted on critical problems of vegetable crop production in the northern Illinois area. These experiments have covered breeding and selection of productive varieties, plant disease control, cultural methods, and fertilizer needs of the crops. Results of these experiments have been published by the Agricultural Experiment Station in eight bulletins and circulars. Since 1926, truck growers' schools have been held annually at the Station, and in recent years a field day has been conducted each summer. Large numbers of interested growers come to the Station every season for help. In recent years, the College of Pharmacy has done some research work with drug plants there. Due to urban developments in that vicinity the station should be given up and the work transferred elsewhere. Even though it is fenced on three sides, there is difficulty in controlling experiments because of trespassing and theft. Truck growers are moving to the west. Cook County truck growers generally recognize the inadvisability of attempting to continue working there under present conditions. Some phases of the work can be continued at the Morton Arboretum on land assigned to the College of Pharmacy. The Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station recommends that this land be sold and the proceeds assigned to the Department of Horticulture for relocating this experimental work at the Morton Arboretum, where it can be integrated with the drug-plant research work of the College of Pharmacy, and elsewhere. I recommend that the Board authorize the Committee on Agriculture to investigate this matter, with a view to selling this land, to employ a competent

1 The legal description of this land is: S V2 of W 40 acres of N W J/i of Section 29, Township 41 North, Range 12 East of 3d P.M. (Maine Township) Cook County, Illinois.