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Title: Annual report
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Massachusetts Agricultural College Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Annual report of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
Subjects: Agricultural education
Publisher: Boston : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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egun in the summer of 1914, was completed by themiddle of October of this year. This project also includes asmall greenhouse for the Department of Agronomy, and onewing of the shops for the Rural Engineering Department.This building is described more fully on another page. Theappropriation for these two groups of buildings aggregated$225,000. The Legislature of 1915 granted an appropriationfor improvements at the power plant, S10,000, and for a lab-oratory for microbiology, $67,500. The latter building wasstarted in the early part of August and is well under way; thecontract calls for the completion in March, 1916. With alegislative appropriation of $10,000 for improvements at thepower plant, in lieu of the $30,000 in the original, the boilerroom was enlarged arid one new 200 horse-power boiler in-stalled. A number of minor improvements have been made, such asthe resetting of two of the old boilers at the power plant, ex- tending the cinder walk from the east experiment station to the
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1916.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 31. 19 walk leading to the college ravine, constructing an incubatorcellar for the Poultry Department and a small fumigating housefor hospital work. Among the repairs might be noted thepainting of the entomology building and the greenhouse range,and a number of small repairs at the sheep, young stock andquarantine barns. The Infirmaky. The Legislature of 1913 appropriated $15,000 for the con-struction and the equipment of a student infirmary. Somedelay was experienced in perfecting plans for this infirmary,and the building was accordingly not completed until thespring of 1915, and was opened for occupancy at the beginningof. the present college year. It was found that the appropria-tion of SI5,000 was not adequate to construct a hospital ofsufficient size to accommodate the students now in attendanceat this institution. It was decided, therefore, to construct twocottages, which may be easily converted into isolation hos-pitals solely, should the general h

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