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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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54 Sixteen Years at the University of IIU\ Fairflold Flora Gnlesburg Louis villo MoNabb Odin Hockford Union Grove Urbana Virginia TOTAL 20 15 28 15 6 20 10 20 4 11.1 349.95 100.00 60.00 200.00 75.00 36.00 100.00 120.00 200.00 60.00 111.00 $2,688.10 Various crops are grown on each of the soil experiment fields, and in several cases for the speoial purpose of crop experiments. Some of the experiment fields are operated primarily for crop investigation. Six others are under the direction of the Department of Horticulture. One field, in addition to those already mentioned, is operated by the department of Horticulture under a cooperative agreement. This is an orchard at Neoga, containing 40 acres, which has been under the direction of the department since 1911. On June 8, 1914, Captain Thomas J. Smith of Champaign, a former trustee of the University, announced to the Board of Trustees his intention to donate four farms containing an aggregate of 768.19 acres and valued at approximately $215,000 to the University for the purpose of providing funds for the erection of a building for the School of Music as a memorial to his wife. In the course of the next three months the transfer of this property to the University was completed. The trustees assigned a site immediately east of the Auditorium for the building, which is known as the Tina Weedon Smith Memorial Building, plans were prepared for the structure, and work was commenced in the fall of 1916 and completed in 1920. This gift represents the largest single donation thus far made by an individual to the University.42 One of the four farms, containing 214 acres, was sold in August, 1917. The other three farms have since been sold.48 «Bept., Univ. of HI., 1914, p. 755; 1916, pp. 120-128, 137-141 "Min. of Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of 111., 1916-18, pp. 123, 136, 512; 1918-20, pp. 86, 214, 292, 294, 408.
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