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reagent cases are fitted. with removable glass tops to prevent 

 staining. Adjustable spring-back chairs are also provided for the 

 microscopists. 



Facing the door of the horticultural museum and just across a 

 narrow hall is one of the fire-proof vaults for the preservation of 

 records, the other vault being upon the second floor, just above 

 this one. The museums, also, are practically fire-proof. 



The narrow hall referred to above is at right angles to the 

 central hall but does not extend across it to the right. From 

 this hall, upon the same side as the vault, lead the door and stair- 

 way to the basement. 



At the right of the main entrance is the office of the dairy 

 expert, which opens into another hall at right angles to the main 

 one and leading to the butter room. This butter room is 32 by 

 20 feet in size and, like the milk-receiving room, pasteurizing 

 room and cheese-room, is finished entirely in white. The floors 

 of these rooms are of vitrified tile, with pitch sufficient to give 

 ready drainage; and the sides have a wainscoting of enameled 

 brick. The apparatus is also finished in white enamel, so that all 

 the surroundings are conducive to neatness. In the south end of 

 the butter room, next the milk-receiving room, are the four sepa- 

 rators, a United States steam turbine, a United States belt power 

 with intermediate connection, a DeLaval steam turbine and an 

 Empire direct-connection belt power. Near the middle of the 

 room is the box churn, which contains four compartments so that 

 four samples of cream may be handled at once under uniform 

 conditions. At the north end of the room are the hand and power 

 butter workers with expansion coils above to secure proper tem- 

 perature. This portion of the room can be shut off from the rest 

 by a curtain when necessary. Opening from this room are an 

 elevator to the basement, a large closet and the cold-storage room. 

 The milk-receiving room has an outer door leading to steps ex- 

 tending along the side of the wing and contains a large vat and 

 steam pump to receive the milk and distribute it to separators, 

 pasteurizer or cheese vats. ■.•... ' 



