furnishing of a building or buildings to be used for the purpose
of instruction and investigation in the various branches >of agri
culture and for the purchase of all necessary apparatus therefor,
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; provided, that before
any part of this appropriation shall be paid, the Trustees of the
State College shall file with the Auditor General plans hnd
specifications and estimates satisfactory to him, showing that the
entire cost of erecting, completing, furnishing and equipping any
building or buildings upon which any part of this appropriation
is to be expended will not exceed the sum of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.”
In accordance with these provisions of law, there have been
filed with the Auditor General plans and specifications for the
group of agricultural buildings shown in the cut.
A main agricultural building, forming the front of the group.,
A dairy building in the rear, connected with the main building
by a corridor.
A building for the respiration-calorimeter, connected with the
main building.
Ground was formerly broken for the Dairy building at the
annual commencement of 1903, and it is expected that it will be
available for the creamery course of 1904, beginning in January.
The building for the respiration-calorimeter is already in use.
The construction of the main building will complete the group
and give the college what, it is believed, will be one of the finest
agricultural buildings in the United States.
The buildings are in the Italian style and contain two stories
above a high basement. The base is of Hummelstown brown
stone, the superstructure of a rich Roman brick with terracotta
trimmings. The buildings are being constructed in the most sub
stantial manner, and will be fire proof throughout. The corridors
and work rooms in the Dairy building will have tiled floors and a
tile wainscot 6 feet high, the remainder of the interior finish being
of red oak. A tunnel connecting with the college heating plant
serves to bring high and low pressure steam and electricity to the