THE MAINE EXPERIMENT STATION. 49 



and by a baby tread horse power. This building is used by the 

 Station and the College of Agriculture. 



The upper barn is 40x100 feet. It has a solid stone founda- 

 tion, resting directly upon die underlying ledge. The tie-up is 

 on the south side of the main floor, and contains seventeen stalls, 

 solidly constructed of birch. The barn contains scales for weigh- 

 ing experimental cattle, bins for the rations of experimental 

 animals, rooms for grain, for storage and for digestion experi- 

 ments, and a silo. The walls and partitions are of spruce 

 sheathing. 



The lower barn is 50x100 feet and has a storage capacity of 

 150 tons of hay. It contains a tie-up recently rebuilt, consist- 

 ing of twenty-six stalls of a new and improved pattern, two 

 grain rooms, two bull rooms, nursery, calf room, and silo. The 

 silo is thirty-six feet deep and will contain 100 tons of cut corn. 

 The basements of the barns contain manure cellars, store rooms 

 and pens for swine. 



The other buildings consist of a hospital barn, 25x40 feet ; a 

 two-story tool house, 25x60 feet ; a horse barn 30x40 feet ; sheep 

 barn 20x120 feet; poultry breeding house, 16x150 feet; 

 twelve poultry brooder houses, 8x10 feet. The farm contains 

 eighty acres under cultivation and about forty acres in pastures 

 and paddocks, varying amounts of which are used for experi- 

 mental purposes. The livestock consists (April, 1900) of 5 

 horses ; 32 cows ; 20 calves and yearlings ; 2 bulls ; 48 swine and 

 pigs ; 67 sheep and lambs ; 500 hens. Part of all the above are 

 under experiment. 



The Station has quite an extensive collection illustrating the 

 economic botany and entomology of the State. The Station 

 library conists of 1,200 volumes. In addition to its own books, 

 the Station has access to the scientific library of the University 

 and also to the State library at Augusta. 



The Station is well equipped in apparatus, particularly that 

 which has to do with chemical, botanical, entomological and 

 horticultural investigations. The farm department is unusually 

 well supplied with modern farm machinery. 



