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new central building. (PI. X.) The building is 230 feet in length 

 by 78 feet in width. It has a semicircular wing with 90 feet front- 

 age, containing an assembly room and two floors devoted to labora- 

 tories. The building is fireproof throughout, of the best modern 

 construction, and the walls are of granite and Bedford stone. 



The building will provide accommodations for instruction and 

 investigation in soils, farm crops, animal husbandry, horticulture, 

 forestry, agricultural chemistry, agricultural journalism, and agri- 

 cultural extension work. The agricultural assembly room has a seat- 

 ing capacity of 1,000. 



Thfe total cost of the building and furniture was about $375,000. 

 It is undoubtedly one of the best buildings devoted to agricultural 

 education in America. 



MAINE. 



The new agricultural building recently occupied by the College of 

 Agi'iculture is designed in the collegiate or Tudor style so much in 

 use at the present time in university buildings. (PL IX, fig. 2.) The 

 material used in the construction of the building is red brick, with 

 trimmings of artificial stone, gray in color, and a slate roof. The 

 furnishings and interior finish are in dark mission oak. The dimen- 

 sions of the building are 100 by G3 feet at grade. 



The building is located on a slight elevation and has two entrances 

 to the first floor, the front or west entrance being from a vestibule 

 leading into wide and spacious corridors Avhich run east and west, 

 north and south. These corridors are amply lighted and so arranged 

 that access to them can be had from various rooms separately. Par- 

 ticular attention has been given to the separation of the various 

 departments and to the placing of laboratories, lecture rooms, and 

 other principal rooms, so as to insure economy in lighting and 

 heating. 



The basement is well above grade, and contains well-lighted and 

 .ventilated rooms for veterinary science, forestry, soil chemistry, soil 

 and physical laboratories, photography, spraying mixtures, appa- 

 ratus, tools, storage, and toilet. The toilet room is supplied with 

 shower baths, lavatories, and lockers. The basement also contains 

 an animal operating room, a dry kiln, and a fireproof storage vault, 

 and is connected with the other floors by means of an elevator. 



The offices of the dean are on the first floor at the right of the 

 main entrance, and arc connected with the library and a fireproof 

 vault. On this same flcH)r are located the departments of animal 

 industry, college extension, and agricultural chemistry, with offices 

 and rooms for the storage of sui^plies. 



