EDITORIAL. 



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The second floor contains the office, library, laboratories, and class 

 room of the department of agricultural chemistry. The main labora- 

 tory, located over the agricultural museum, is 65 by 75 feet, and will 

 accommodate 100 students at a time. The lecture room, at the opposite 

 end, will seat 160 persons. Adjacent to this is a suite of rooms for the 

 department of veterinary medicine. An assembly hall for the Town- 

 send Society, located in the center of the front over the entrance hall, 

 will seat about 200 persons. Connected with this hall is an office for 

 the editors of The Agricultural Student. 



Basement. 



First story. 

 Fig. 8.— Townsheiul Hall, Ohio State University. Plan of basement anil iirst story. 



As the result of the report on the agricultural capabilities of Alaska, 

 made by the agents of this Office at the close of last year, Congress has 

 continued and increased the appropriation for investigations in Alaska 

 with reference to the establishment of agricultural experiment stations 

 there. Prof. C. C. Georgeson, formerly professor of agriculture in the 

 Kansas Agricultural College, has been assigned to this Office as special 

 agent in charge of the Alaska investigations. He will make his head- 

 quarters at Sitka, and will institute experiments with cereals, vegeta- 

 bles, and other crops at a number of places in that vicinity. He will 

 also visit Kadiak Island, Cook Inlet, and other points north of Sitka 

 with reference to the selection of land for experimental purposes and 

 the institution of experiments with the cooperation of residents of 



