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and a knowledge of the work done and the work planned in those 

 institutions. 



Thereupon the following committee was appointed to under- 

 take on behalf of the General Committee the investigation speci- 

 fied : 



F. I. Mann, Chairman, Gilman, Illinois; Auditor of the 

 State Farmers' Institute. 



Ralph Allen, Delavan, Illinois ; Director of the State Farm- 

 ers' Institute. 



H. J. Sconce, Sidell, Illinois; Corn Breeder and Grower. 



C. A. Ewing, Decatur, Illinois; Attorney-at-Law and farm- 

 er in a large way. 



W. N. Rudd, Blue Island, Illinois; President of Mount 

 Greenwood Cemtery Association, Chicago, and identified with 

 the ornamental branches of horticulture. 



Upon the fact of the appointment of this committee becom- 

 ing known to the Trustees of the University of Illinois, they 

 delegated two of their members, Mr. A. P. Grout, of Winchester, 

 Illinois, and Mr. F. L. Hatch, of Spring Grove, Illinois, together 

 with Eugene Davenport, Dean of the Agricultural College, to 

 accompany the committee in their tour of inspection. Upon the 

 completion of the inspection of other institutions, and after a sub- 

 sequent thorough investigation of the College of Agriculture of 

 the State of Illinois, a meeting of the General Agricultural Com- 

 mittee was again called, which was held at Urbana on December 

 8 and 9. 



At this meeting the report of the Sub-Committee was pre- 

 sented and unanimously approved. The Sub-Committee was 

 continued and made a permanent committee by unanimous vote, 

 with instructions to make public the findings in the report, and to 

 promote in every possible legitimate way the strengthening of 

 the Agricultural College of the University of Illinois in accord- 

 ance with the terms of the report so accepted. 



The Work of the Committee. 



The committee at its first meeting decided that a knowledge 

 of conditions in similar institutions in other states, as had been 



