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HORTICULTURE 



November 26, 1910 



WISCONSIN COLLEGE AND STA- 

 TION. 



A modern horticultural building, 

 with pottinghouse and greenhouse, is 

 being constructed for the horticultural 

 and plant pathology departments of 

 the College of Agriculture of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin at Madison. The 

 entire new structure will cost about 

 $00,000 exclusive of equipment and will 

 provide much needed additional facili- 

 ties for instruction and research work 

 in horticulture and plant pathology 

 at the Badger Institution. One range 

 of four gi'eenhouses 20x100 is com- 

 pleted and a pottinghouse adjoining 

 this is about finished. These houses 

 will provide more than twice the glass 

 area in use at the present time. 



The main horticultural building will 

 consist of a three-story, fire-proof, 

 rectangular structure 4Sxl28 feet form- 

 ing the main section of what will ulti- 

 mately consist of a central building 

 with two wings. The construction will 

 consist of reinforced concrete with 

 brick exterior trimmed in stone and 

 red tiled roof, being absohitely fire- 

 proof throughout. The building is lo- 

 cated upon a south-west slope and the 

 high basement will give a well lighted 

 basement story, which will include a 

 large machinery laboratory for or- 

 chard, garden and spraying machinery, 

 separate storage cellars for vegetables, 

 fruits and seeds, a general storage 

 room, a laboratory for the preparation 

 »Rd demonstration with spraying ma- 

 terials and a general work room. 



The main floor provides four private 

 and one general offices and a small 

 private laboratory, a large general la- 

 boratorv and cloak-room, a class-room 

 which "will seat 125 students, and a 

 large laboratory for landscape work, 

 accommodating 50 to 60 students. 

 There will be offices for the extension 

 department, a seminar and reading 

 room and an extensive museum and 

 liebarnium. One end of the second 

 floor will be devoted to a large class 

 room, seating 250 students, and the 

 other' end will be occupied by the de- 

 partment of plant pathology. Offices, 

 laboratories, museum and a large gen- 

 eral laboratory are provided. The 

 third or attic story is arranged so 

 that it may be finished, providing a 

 large laboratory and store-room. 



About 300 feet south of the main 

 structure are located the pottinghous", 

 south of which are the greenhouses. 

 The pottinghouse, 20x68 feet, is joined 

 to the greenhouses by a covered drive- 

 way and contains a general potting 

 laboratorv, a room tor the preparation 

 of spray" mixtures, storage quarters 

 for bulbs, a mushroom gi-owing room, 

 an attendant's office and storage for 

 tools. The 100-foot greenhouses are 

 divided into 33-foot sections, all of 

 which are equipped with high benches 

 except one 60-foot section, which will 

 be used as a garden house for instruc- 

 tional purposes. One section of the 

 greenhouses will be used by the plant 

 pathology and agricultural chemistry 

 departments. Another section is fitted 

 as a conservatory. A laboratory, 

 20x33 feet, for the plant pathology de- 

 partment adjoins the greenhouses de- 

 leted to that work. The entire plant 

 TS-ill be heated by steam from the Uni- 

 tersitv heating station. 



The work of the horticultural de- 

 l»artment is developing rapidly under 



Conservation has become a watchword and is on every tongue. When its 

 novelty lias passed and we come to consider its true meaning, we sliall find that 

 cmservation of the resources of the soil of our farm lands is the most important 

 element in the whole subject. 



The American farmers have been a race of unconscious soil skinners. 



Now, we want not only to conserve productivity, but to restore some of that re- 

 moved. We must get down to facts. 



One fact often lost sight of is that we can double the value of clover and farm 

 manure by supplementing them with 



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the direction of Prof. J. G. Moore, re- 

 cently appointed in charge of the de- 

 partment. Associated with him are Mr. 

 O. R. Butler, appointed this summer, 

 who will devote his attention primar- 

 ily to research work. Mr. .7. G. Mil- 

 ward devotes his time primarily to 

 extension work, conducting orchard 

 and potato spraying demonstrations 

 at many points in the state and ex- 

 tension experiments in potato growing. 

 Mr. A. J. Rogers is assistant in in- 

 structional and experimental work in 

 vegetable forcing, market gardening, 

 orcharding, etc., and Mr. J. Johnson 

 is assistant in tobacco investigation. 

 With the new facilities provided by 

 this building the increased demand in 

 the department for instructional and 

 research work will be met. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Richmond, Va. — Tne Bell Bryan 

 Nursery will erect a brick addition 

 to their present building costing 

 $5,000. 



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