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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The second floor of the building (tig. 3) will contain two offices for 

 the department of animal husbandry, a workroom, a museum, and a 



class room for animal feeding. The workroom will be used for the 

 study of pedigrees, the keeping of feeding records, and for micro- 

 scopic work. It will be 22 by 28 feet, while the museum and class 

 room will each be 30 by 39 feet in size. On this floor will also be 

 located a dark room, toilet, and a vault for the storage of records and 

 other valuable books. 



In the left or east wing are located the stables for the live stock, in 

 a basement and subbasement. The land slopes away from the front 



Fig. 3. — Second-floor plan, live stock building. Minnesota < tollege of Agriculture. 



jjfcsuch a way as to make both the basement and the subbasement almost 

 entirely above ground. The subbasement will be used for rattle", and 

 the floor above for horses. This winy runs back something over 50 

 feet beyond the main part, so that on the basement floor (horse barn) 

 it has a depth of 120 feet from front to back, and a width of 4.0 feet, 

 The subbasement, or cattle barn (tig. 1), will have a cement floor 

 and be provided with iron stable fittings. It will contain a number of 

 box stalls, and a root cellar, which will extend into the side hill; and 



