KEW BUILDINGS AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



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The tirst floor (tig-. '2) contaiii.s ii soil lal)oratoiy, 22 by 30 feet, class 

 rooms for animal husbandry and aj^ronomy. each 22 ])y 32 feet, offices, 

 and reading- room. 



PLAN or SECOND TLOOR 

 Fiii. 3. — \ow Hampshire Agricultural Buikliiig. 



The second floor (flg. 3) contains laboratories for forestry and horti- 

 culture, each 22 by 36 feet, class room 22 by 32 feet, offices, reading 

 room, and herbarium. The walls of all rooms on the flrst and second 

 floors are tinted in subdued colors. 



When flnished, the attic will contain a room 2!» by 47 feet for the 

 classes in drawing, which will be lighted from one end and skylights 

 overhead. A smaller room, 29 b}- 34 feet, will provide accommodations 

 for meetings of the students' agricultui'al society. 



The Missouri State legislature in 1901 appropriated $40,00(1 for a 

 dairy and live-stock ))uilding. It was subsequently decided, however, 

 to erect two separate buildings instead of combining all in one. 



The dairy building (PI. I, flg. 2) is 45 by 150 feet, and two stories in 

 height, with cheese-curing rooms in the basement. It is built of crys- 

 talline limestone, with a slate roof. It contains on the first floor (fig-. 

 4) all of the operating rooms, viz, a creamery room 40 by 51 feet in the 

 clear, which will accommodate 7 power separators, the necessary ripen- 

 ing vats, pasteurizers, churns, butter workers, printers, etc. ; a cheese 

 room, at present 40 by 42 feet, and a farm daily room 22 by 40 feet. The 

 partition between the cheese room and the farm dair}- room is tempo- 

 rary and may be removed at any time without defacing the building 

 or in any way interfering with the stability of the structure, so as to 



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