84 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



The Committee on ^President's Address announced that they 

 were now ready to re^Dort: 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Your committee^ to whom was referred the President's Address, 

 will report, that among the many valuable suggestions in that able 

 paper, the one recommending the establishment of an experimental 

 station especially deserves the serious consideration of this Society. 

 Your committee believe a horticultural and agricultural experiment 

 station should be established and maintained in efficient working 

 condition by the State. We further believe that this station can be 

 established at less cost, and that it would be far more serviceable, if 

 located in connection with our State University. We therefore 

 submit the following: 



EesoJved, That in the judgment of the Illinois Horticultural 

 Society an agricultural and horticultural experiment station should 

 be established in connection with the State Industrial University by 

 our next State Legislature. 



Parker Earle, 

 J. M. Pearson, 

 T. McWhorter. 



Hon. S. H. West — I wish to inquire the probable cost of an 

 experimental station of this description. 



Parker Earle — In New York the annual cost is about $20,000. 

 Here we have the farm, buildings, and professors. The expense, 

 therefore, would be exceptionally small. 



Hon. S. H. West — When in the legislature it was my pleasure 

 to favor all the appropriations that I thought would be of public 

 benefit. I am in favor of this movement, but know too well how 

 difficult it will be to get an appropriation for the purpose. 



Parker Earle — Mr. Corbet tells me that the cost of running 

 such a station in New York does not exceed |7,000. 



Prof. Burrill — I am deeply interested in this question. A num- 

 ber of these stations have been established in Europe, and several of 

 the Eastern States are engaging in the work, and if we expect to 

 keep abreast of the times we must not longer neglect it. 



Prof. Ragan — Those of you who were at the New Orleans 

 meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society remember 

 my position on this question. That the original appropriation, or 



