EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 407 



LANDS^ BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT. 



The original 100-acre farm is inventoried at S8,000.00. Of the recently 

 acquired section, 140 acres, seeded and fenced, is valued at »4,200.00, and 

 the remaining 480 acres of new and cut-over lands at S4,800.00. Thus 

 the total estimated value of all lands at Chatham is 817,000.00. 



The following is a list of buildings which have been provided very 

 largely during the past half-dozen years : 



Kesidence of Superintendent |5,000 00 



Farm house, 10 rooms, 24x28 4,500 00 



Dairy barn 36x72 ^ 3,500 00 



Boot cellar (concrete) 20x50 1,000 00 



Hog house 30x40 1,000 00 



Ice house (concrete) 500 00 



Poultry house 250 00 



Original horse barn 250 00 



Original granarv 200 00 



Sheep barn 36x100 2,400 00 



Total value of buildings .1!18,600 00 



During the present season a combination horse and implement barn, 

 40x100, is being erected at a cost of about §7,500.00, thus meeting a 

 long-felt need. The old seed house has been removed to the basement 

 foundation originally occupied by the old farm house and the basement 

 is being fitted up for use as dairy rooms while the upper floors are being 

 equipped so that seeds and grains may be properly stored, cleaned, 

 graded, etc., at all seasons of the year, no matter what weather condi- 

 tions may be; this will include an expenditure of about •*?1,250.00. This 

 season, also, a concrete manure pit, 24xG0 feet, is being built to cost 

 approximately |650.00. This manure storage house will connect directly 

 with tlie carrying trackage already in operation in tlie dairy barn. 

 Such storage facilities are made necessary because of the long periods 

 of winter with depths of snow whicli make it impracticable to haul the 

 manure out on the land at that time. These building facilities will com- 

 ])U'\9 Hie system planned on the home farm. Cheap, commodious shelter 

 slieds for sheeji and cattle and for the storage of foddci- arc now needed 

 on the newer grazing lands of the larger farm. 



The original farm and those portions of the newer larni fenced, in- 

 clude a total of from 18 to 20 miles of fences, representing an investment 

 of npproximately 86.000.00. In large part, the cedar posts have been 

 salvaged on the farm and heavy 48-inch woven wire has been procured 

 in carload lots. Just prior to the war a very heavy all number 9 lateral 

 wire fence was used, but more recently price conditions have enforced 

 the use of a lighter type of fence. At least half of the cut-over land 

 of tlie newer farm is still unfenced, permitting neighborhood stock to 

 roam at will, interfering with seeding plans. A car of wire is now on 

 hand, together with the necessary posts, but the labor situation has 

 seriously interfered with construction work. 



A continuous addition to the working equipment and facilities now 

 represents the following investments : 



