New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 15 
the bacteriologist’s laboratory, bacteriological culture and incuba- 
tor room and a storage and work room. A portion of the 
incubator and culture room is to be shut off from the rest by a 
glass partition and its temperature held where desired by a cold- 
air flue and radiator automatically controlled, as a convenience 
for summer work with gelatin cultures. 
The attic has been finished off only in the east half and bere 
are located the rooms devoted to photography. These consist of 
a gallery 36 by 34 feet, ighted by an 8 by 10 foot skylight and a 
large double dormer window; a dark room; and a finishing room. 
In the west half of the attic is the chamber containing the 
large ammonia expansion coils and brine tanks. This chamber 
is insulated with great care by air spaces on all sides and by thick 
double-air-spaced walls, so that very little heat from without can 
enter. : 
In the basement are the machinery and boiler rooms, several 
- large coal and storage rooms and one large room for curjng Brie, 
cream, and similar cheeses which require moisture and darkness. 
This room is also provided with cooling apparatus. 
USES OF THE BIOLOGICAL AND DAIRY BUILDING. 
In order that the people of the State may be reminded of the 
real relation this new structure bears to agriculture as an art, I 
take the liberty of reproducing here remarks that I offered at the 
dedicatory exercises which occurred on September 21, 1898. 
“Tt is not necessary to state what all clearly understand, that 
this building has not been erected simply for the sake of adding 
one more structure to those previously possessed by this Experi- 
ment Station. A larger and more useful purpose has been in view. 
What this is, doubtless many have asked to-day, in thought if not 
in word. It will aid in answering this very pertinent question if 
we refer to certain statements, contained in the report of the 
director of this Station for 1896. In discussing the proper work 
of this institution it was declared that ‘ horticulture and dairying 
occupy a commanding position in New York agriculture’ and it 
