PHOGRESS IN AGRTCUT.TURAL EDUCATION. 327 



form part of contompliUed main buiklino^, $r)0,000; purchase of land, 

 $10,000; eiilar«>:onuMit and tMiuipmont of dinin<jj hall, $10,000. The 

 College of Agiic'ulture of the University of Missouri was given 

 $55,000, of which $5,000 was for a laboratory building for farm 

 machinery. The board of regents of the University of Nebraska will 

 erect a w^oman's building at the school of agriculture to cost $;V2,000. 

 The New Hampshire Agricultural College received $50,500 under 

 the following heads: (lymnasium and drill hall, $25,000; general 

 expenses, $20,000; president's house, to supplement insurance money, 

 $5,500. Oklahoma Agricultural College received $75,000 for a build- 

 ing for agriculture and horticulture, $15,000 for additional shops, 

 $2,500 for a gyumasium, $8,000 for land, and an increase of $5,500 

 per annum for maintenance. Pennsylvania State College was given 

 $150,000 for completion of agricultural building, $21,500 for exten- 

 <-;ion of heat, light, and power plant, $30,000 for maintenance of agri- 

 cultural courses, $2,500 for tool and poultry houses, and $139,450.33 

 for general maintenance. The Rhode Island Agricultural College 

 received $20,000 for a greenhouse and poultry building, and $4,000 

 for a student-labor fund and for continuing the work of the agricul- 

 tural demonstrator. Among the appropriations made to the South 

 Dakota Agricultural College were the following: Salaries, $13,000 a 

 year; maintenance, $18,200 for 1906 and $17,700 for 1907; purchase 

 of land, $1(5,000. 



NEW BUILDINGS. 

 MASSACHUSETTS. 



The Massachusetts Agricultural College has completed, at a cost of 

 $39,950, a new building to be known as Wilder Hall for the depart- 

 ment of horticulture and landscape gardening (PI. VII, fig. 1). The 

 building is constructed of red brick with terra-cotta trimmings, and 

 at all ijoints modern fireproof construction has been used. The non- 

 bearing partitions are of fireproof tile, the bearing partitions of 

 brick, and the floors of hollow fireproof tile. The staircases are of 

 Portland cement on hollow fire[)roof tile. Many of the floors are 

 finished in Portland cement, and the roof is of green tile on wooden 

 trusses. The latter is the only possible exception to the fireproof con- 

 struction. The equipment will consist of the most modern furniture 

 and apparatus. Heat will be supplied from the central heating plant 

 of the college, and ventilation has been provided for by a very com- 

 plete system. 



The basement floor contains two class rooms, a storage room, and 

 two laboratories, besides hallways and toilet rooms, a coat room, and 

 a room for surveying instruments. The entrance to the basement is 

 on the western front and is on grade level. It fronts toward the 



