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The heat for this building will be supplied from twin boilers 

 of twenty -five horse-power each, which will carry a pressure of 

 from sixty to seventy-five poujids, the pressure on the radiators 

 being reduced to five pounds. These boilers will furnish steam 

 for a twenty horse-powt^' engine^ which will supply power for 

 running the dairy machinery, the compressor of the refrigerating 

 plant, an automatic compressed air pump, a water pump and 

 other apparatus. 



The building is to be equipped with one of the most approved 

 forms of refrigerating apparatus which will be used to secure a 

 low temperature in the cold storage room and such temperatures 

 as are desired in the cheese-curing, bacteriological, cheese and 

 dairy rooms. 



The temperature of the building will be automatically con- 

 trolled by a pneumatic system of temperature regulation. In the 

 oflSces, laboratories and working-rooms of the dairy department, 

 this control will be applied directly to the valves of the radiators. 

 In the cheese-curing rooms, and to a partial extent in the culture 

 and incubator rooms, the temperature will be regulated through 

 the operation of dampers opening or closing hot and cold air 

 tubes. 



New fon-imi house. — A new building has been added to the 

 forcing house plant, the dimensions of which are 100 by 20 feet. 

 This is to be utilized for investigations in plant nutrition. 



Poultry house. — The facilities for poultry investigation have 

 been increased by the erection of a new house. The special fea- 

 tures of this building are an incubator cellar where uniformity 

 of temperature can be secured, a series of brooders warmed by 

 hot water, breeding pens of the most approved plan, storage for 

 a large variety of foods, a room for the poultry man and a cooking 

 room. 



General repairs. — During the past eighteen mouths the build- 

 ings of the Station have been put in thoroughly good condition. 

 The two houses occupied by Mr. Beach and Mr. Wheeler have 

 been enlarged and renovated throughout, and have been equipped 



