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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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52 Sixteen Years (ft the University of Illinois Experiment Station of the University as experiment fields. The General Assembly of 1901 appropriated $20,000 for soil investigation. This amount has been increased by subsequent legislatures. Fifty thousand dollars was appropriated in 1903 in 1906, and in 1907; $120,000 in 1909 and $130,000 in 1911. Sevoral experiment fields were established in 1901, and within six years twenty fields were occupied. At first such tracts of land were rented for a term of years; but since 1905 many fields have come into the possession of the University by gift or by purchase, chiefly by the former method. At the present time thirty fields are owned by the University. Two of these, comprising a total of 105.33 acres, have been purchased. The cost of the two fields was $6,675, an average of $63.37 per acre. Twenty-eight fields with a total area of 608.39 acres have been donated to the University. The approximate value of this land is $87,772, or about $145 an acre. During the past sixteen years, therefore, the University has acquired for experiment fields, outside of its holdings at Urbana, thirty tracts of land containing 713,72 acres and a total value of $94,447.4° Twenty leased fields are still occupied also, having a combined area of 349.95 acres. The sum paid as rental for these tracts amounts to $2,683.10 a year. The list of the leased fields is as follows : 41 LOCATION ACRES ANNUAL RENTJ Anna Antioch. Bloomington Carlinville Centralia LOCATION 2 1.7 4.4 20 16 ACRES $20.00 8.50 60.00 00.00 » ANNUAL RENT Champaign Cutler De Kalb Dubois Fairfield 80 18.5 36.25 5 20 $1,000.00 117.60 290.00 25.00 100.00 "Comptroller's Report, Univ. of HI., 1913, pp. 89ff, 1914, pp. 52-53; Corrected 1920 "Kept., Univ. of 111., 1914, p. 742 (list corrected 1920) *On a half-crop basis
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