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34 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



POULTRY PLANT. 



In the bill passed by the last legislature appropriating |20,000 for 

 experimental \\ork in live stock it was provided that |2,(I0U of this sum 

 should be expended in erecting and equipping a poultry plant. In 

 carrying out this i)roject a site was selected on the high ground about 

 twenty-five rods east of the farm house, and the following buildings 

 were erected : A winter laying house 15 by 84 feet, a combined incuba- 

 »tor cellar and laboratory, and three portable gasoline colony brooders. 

 A fattening shed and several small model poultry houses are yet to be 

 erected. 



ENGINEERING P>UILUING. 



The new building which is now under construction but which will 

 not be comjjleted before next June Avill be the linest building on the 

 grounds. The material used is stone for the basement story and paving 

 brick al)Ove. The interior 'is mill proof construction with maple floors 

 and oak finishings. It is "182 by 84 feet in size with an extension on 

 the rear of 47 by o7 feet. The basement is nearly all above ground and 

 will answer splendidly for laboratory purposes. The fifth story, count- 

 ing the basement as the first, will be used mainly for drawing rooms, 

 on account of the excellent lighting made possible by the skylights 

 in the roof. The building will contain more than forty laboratories 

 and recitation rooms, besides offices, storage, toilet, and other small 

 rooms. It will be occupied by the engineering — mechanical, civil and 

 electrical, — the drawing and the physics departments, and will be fully 

 occupied from the start. This building is located between Wells hall 

 and the present mechanical building, and will cost about flOO. 0(1(1. 



THE CAMPIS. 



The campus is undergoing some slight changes from time to time. 

 The board employed the noted landscape architect, Mr. Simons, of Chi- 

 cago, to visit the college last spring and spend two or three days in 

 looking over the campus and in consultation with the men now in 

 charge. This was done not with a view to any radical changes but 

 rather, if possible, to settle upon some plan with reference to the loca- 

 tion of buildings in the future. He approved slight changes in a few 

 of the old roads and the removal of some unimportant trees. His sug- 

 gestion that no new buildings be placed on the inner camjms has been 

 approved by the board and will, no doubt, be adhered to in the I'uture. 

 If this policy is followed, the M. A. C camjms will go down to future 

 generations as "a thing of beauty and a joy forever.-' His othei- im- 

 })ortant recommendation was that the new auditorium and administra- 

 tion building which we hoi)e to erect in the near future be located near 

 the public highway northeast of the horticultural building. This build- 

 ing will very naturally be the center of cam])us life, and the wisdom 

 of ])lacing it on the edge of the campus is doubted by some. As. College 

 hall has become anticpiated and the outer walls are badly cracked and 

 growing woi-Be, il has been suggested that it should be removed and the 

 new building placed on this site. These and similar matters are i-e- 

 ceiving careful consideration, with the hope that serious mistakes may 



