320 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



A large building convenient to the campus of the University of 

 Idaho has been leased for the use of the new department of farm 

 machinery. This building is being equipped with about $15,000 

 worth of farm machinery, including traction engines, motors, farm 

 automobiles, and similar appUances. Work in farm architecture 

 will also form a part of the course. This is stated to be the first farm 

 engineering course to be offered in the Northwest. 



The new dairy building at the New Hampshire Agricultural College 

 has been completed. It is a terra cotta, tile, and cement fireproof 

 structure, with a main portion two stories in height wdth about 55 

 feet frontage and 48 feet in depth, flanked by two 1 -story wings 37 

 by llj feet. On the ground floor is a large demonstration room for 

 dairy machinery and a laboratory equipped for dairy chemistry 

 work, with the college creamery in the rear. The second story is 

 occupied by offices, classrooms, and a reading room. 



A woman's building has been erected at the Oklahoma Agricultural 

 College at a cost of $62,000. (PI. X.) It has in addition to the 

 Hving rooms a large gymnasium, with plunge and shower baths 

 adjoining, classrooms for home economics work, a commodious recep- 

 tion hall, a modern kitchen, and a dining hall that wiU seat 160 stu- 

 dents. The new boys' dormitory, costing about $28,000, contains 

 living rooms for 100 boys, and is modern in every respect. Both 

 buildings are provided with hospital rooms. 



The new poultry hospital for use in connection with the study of 

 poultry diseases at the Rhode Island Agricultural College is now 

 completed. This hospital, with its modern equipment, is believed 

 to be the first of its kind to be erected for this special purpose in this 

 country and probably in the world. 



The new dairy barn at the South Dakota Agricultural College has 

 been completed at a cost of about $10,000. It is planned to use a 

 portion of the building for classrooms and experimental laboratories. 



The $30,000 dairy laboratory at the University of Wisconsin has 

 been completed and was used for the winter dairy course. A new 

 sheep barn, silo, manure storage shed, potting house, and four green- 

 houses have also been erected, and work has been started on a horti- 

 cultural building. An allotment of $60,000 is available for the new 

 horticultural equipment. The formal dedication of the new forest 

 products laboratory took place June 4, 1910, Forester Graves, of 

 this department. President C. R. Van Hise, of the Wisconsin 

 University, Gov. J. O. Davidson, and ex-Gov. W. D. Hoard par- 

 ticipating in the exercises. The laboratory is a three-story brick 

 structure, trimmed with white sandstone, erected by the university 

 at a cost of $75,000, and equipped by this department for a Uke 

 sum. (PI. XI, fig. 1.) Courses in wood technology-and the mechani- 

 cal engineering of wood-manufacturing plants are to be added 



