New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 367 
power, and feed and silage cutters, threshing and winnowing 
machines. 
Above the stairway from the basement a series of short flights 
of stairs rise alternately to the north and south and furnish easy 
communication between the basement and storage loft, and also 
easy access to the upper windows used to ventilate the main barn, 
to the hay carrier track and the cupolas were part of the meteoro- 
logical instruments will be located. Hay is drawn up and thrown 
down through an opening in the second floor 11x15 feet in the 
middle of each of the middle bents. 
This is briefly the plan of the barn. It was planned and has 
been built with three leadings points in view: 
First, the storage of plat crops separate from each other. The 
desirability of such a plan has been freshly demonstrated the past 
season with fertilizer experiments on grass and oats. A few 
samples were taken for analysis by the chemist in the prosecution 
of his regular studies on the composition of crops. On analysis 
his attention was attracted by an interesting point which it was 
desirable to follow up, but which had been lost by mixing the plat 
with the common field crops. 
Another point is that when a crop is Late for harvest there is 
often more time required for detailed examination than weather 
conditions will allow, and if ample storage can be provided into 
which such crops can be placed they can be examined in detail 
with no danger of loss, and unmolested by climatic conditions. 
The second and central point was the accommodation of 
dairy stock. It has been proposed to give a fair and impartial 
trial to representative breeds of dairy cattle throughout in 
every controllable respect. It is evident to all that such an 
experiment must be provided with ample stabling accommoda- 
tions that one set of animals may not be at disadvantage 
from colder stabling or other unpleasant drawbacks resulting from 
poor stable accommodations. This barn basement is well lighted, 
watered, and promises to beso comfortable a home for dairy animals 
that there can be no question arise as to its fitness for the 
object in view. 
The broad feeding floor was specially designed to provide room 
for experimental feeding with a larger number of animals than we 
