NEW AGRICULTURAL BUILDING AT THE NORTH CAROLINA 

 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. 



A new building, to be known as Agricultural Hall (PI. I), is in process 

 of erection at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts, which will mark a noteworthy step in the development of agri- 

 cultural instruction at the college. It will be, when completed, one of 

 the largest and best equipped agricultural buildings in the South. It 

 will place the agricultural department of the college on a par with any 

 in the institution, and will add very materially to its facilities for 

 instruction. The steady growth of interest in the agricultural courses, 

 which has been going on within the past few years, has made these 

 added facilities a necessity. 



The new building is designed to be the central feature of a new 

 group of buildings which are in contemplation, viz, a main stock barn, 

 a veterinary building, a horticultural building, a building for agricul- 

 tural engineering, and a dormitory for agricultural students. These 

 will be located in accordance with a general plan which has been pre- 

 pared by a landscape architect for the further development of the 

 grounds of the institution. 



The agricultural building will make provision for the administrative 

 offices of the department of agriculture, and will include class rooms 

 and laboratories for the departments of agronomy, animal husbandry, 

 dairying, veterinary science, and biology in the college. It will also 

 provide improved facilities for such college officers as are connected 

 with the experiment station, for whose station work special research 

 laboratories and other rooms are set apart. 



The building will have a frontage of 208 feet by a depth of 74 feet, 

 and will be two stories high above a basement of full height, and amply 

 lighted. In effect, therefore, it will be a three-story building. The 

 basement floor (PI. II) will be devoted to the departments of animal hus- 

 bandry and daiiying, with a large live stock judging room, rooms for 

 farm butchering, butter and cheese rooms, etc. There will be a refrig- 

 erating plant for cooling six separate cold-storage rooms to different 

 temperatures. 



The first floor (PI. Ill) will contain a laboratory and class rooms for soil 

 physics, an agronomy laboratory, a farm machinery room, and a dairy 

 laboratory and class room. There will also be a library connecting 



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