48 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9OO. 



versity. In 1897, the whole farm was placed under the man- 

 agement of the Station. Its accounts are kept entirely distinct 

 from the University and from the Hatch fund accounts. 

 Both the University and the Hatch fund make appropriations, 

 one for the privileges of instruction, the other for maintaining 

 the experimental work. By this consolidation there was made 

 a marked reduction of the expenses of the farm. After the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture has used what facilities it may need for the 

 purpose of instruction and the Experiment Station has used the 

 land and animals needed for investigations and experiments, the 

 remainder of the farm and livestock are handled for profit. 



EQUIPMENT OF THE STATION. 



The equipment of the Station consists of an office and lab- 

 oratory building 60x25 feet and a wing 20x22 feet, constructed 

 of brick with granite trimmings. The basement and first floor 

 of this building are devoted to chemical laboratory purposes and 

 the upper floor contains the laooratory of the veterinarian and 

 the station offices. 



In this building there are thoroughly equipped analytical 

 laboratories for investigations of foods and feeding stuffs, fer- 

 tilizers, soils, etc. 



The Horticultural Building consists of a head-house, three 

 green houses and a potting house. The plant covers over 6,000 

 square feet of surface and is usea for the purpose of investiga- 

 tion and that of instruction. The head house contains the 

 offices of the professor of horticulture and his assistant, work 

 room, store room, and photographic rooms, as well as rooms for 

 the station janitor. 



The Dairy Building is a wooden building 50x42 feet, contain- 

 ing on the first floor a butter room, a cold storage room, a 

 cheese room, a milk room and a boiler room. On the second 

 floor is a lecture room, offices, and a cheese curing room. The 

 apparatus includes hand and power separators of several differ- 

 ent forms, creamers, hand and power churns and butter workers, 

 cream and cheese tempering vats, weighing tanks, hand and 

 power Babcock milk and cream testers of different makes, Rus- 

 sell pasteurizing apparatus, milk aerator, and the other appli- 

 ances necessary. Power is furnished by a 6-horse power engine 



