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been going on within the i)ast few years, has made these added facili- 

 ties a necessity. 



The new bnilding is designed to be the central feature of a new 

 group of buildings whicli arc in contonii)lation, viz, a main stock 

 barn, a veterinary building, a horticultural building, a building for 

 agricultural engineering, and a dormitory for agricultural students. 

 These will be located in accordance with a general i)lan which has 

 been prepared 1)V a landscape architect for the further development 

 of the grounds of the institution. 



The agricultural building makes provision for the administrative 

 ofliccs of the department of agriculture, and includes class rooms 

 and laboratories for the departments of agronomy, animal husbandry, 

 dairying, veterinary science, and biology in the college. It also pro- 

 vides improved facilities for such college officers as are connected 

 with the experiment station, for whose station work special research 

 laboratories and other rooms are set aj^art. 



The building has a frontage of 208 feet by a depth of 74 feet, and 

 is two stories high above a basement of full height, and amply 

 lighted. In effect, therefore, it is a three-story building. The base- 

 ment floor (PI. IX) is devoted to the departments of animal hus- 

 bandry and dairying, with a large live-stock judging room, rooms for 

 farm butchering, butter and cheese rooms, etc. There will be a 

 refrigerating plant for cooling six separate cold-storage rooms to 

 ditl'erent temperatures. 



The first floor (PI. X) contains a laboratory and class rooms for 

 soil physics, an agronomy laboratory, a farm machinery room, and 

 a dairy laboratory and class room. There is also a library connect- 

 ing with a students' meeting room, and offices for the professor of 

 agriculture and the farm superintendent. The second floor (PI. XI) 

 will be devoted mainly to botany, veterinary science, and bacteriology. 

 There will be botanical, bacteriological, plant-disease, and physio- 

 logical laboratories, class rooms for veterinary science, l)()tany, and 

 zoology and physiology, together with a veterinary pharmacy, incu- 

 bator rooms, storerooms, and offices. 



An elevator extends from the basement to the second story, and a 

 fireproof vault is provided on the main floor. The class rooms for 

 veterinary science and botany on the second floor are so arranged 

 that they may be thrown together, providing a large lecture room for 

 public gatherings. 



The buihling is constructed of buff pressed brick and granite. It 

 has a roof of red tile, and all outside metal work is of copi)er. The 

 inside walls are of face brick, painted, and the l)uilding is of slow- 

 l)urMing construction throughout. Heat will be supj)lied from tlie 

 central heating j)lant. The cost of the building, with cipiiinuent, will 

 be about $100,00U. 



