I STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. 5
‘ About three quarters of a mile south of the campus, on the
- Nicholasville pike, an extension of South Limestone Street, is
the Experiment Station Farm, consisting of forty-eight and a
, half acres. Here the iield experiments of the Station are con-
; ducted, and students have opportunities to witness tests of vari-
  eties of field crops, dairy tests, fertilizer tests, fruit-spraying
  tests, in short, all the scientific experimentation of a thoroughly
·:  equipped and organized Station. The front of the farm is past-
,l  ure and orchard. The back portion is divided off into two hun-
  dred one-tenth acre plots, for convenience in making crop tests.
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A  The main college building is a structure of stone and brick,
  140 feet long and 68 feet in width. It contains the office of the
 I President and of the Business Agent, and on the third floor,
 , counting the basement floor as one, is the chapel, in which each
 A day the students and Faculty meet, and in which are held public
T i gatherings and such other meetings as bring together the entire
..  student body. The remaining space in this building is occupied
»   by recitation rooms and by the society rooms of the students.
·  jp The Station building is a handsome structure, well planned I
¤ .g_  for the object for which it is made. It is seventy feet in length
  by Hfty-four feet in width, with a tower projection in front, and
T  an octagonal projection eighteen by eighteen on the north side.
 *; The building is two stories high, and a basement eleven feet
,   from floor to ceiling. The main entrance is on the first floor, on
i , the west side of the building, through an archway fifteen feet
t  , wide. The basement is occupied in part by the Station and in
- 9 part by the College. The next floor above is devoted to oHice
,   and laboratory work of the Station, while the upper floor accom-
g P.  modates the College work in Chemistry.
r   The building devoted to Mechanical Engineering covers alto-
l -_ gether an area of about 2o,ooo feet, is constructed of stone and
2  · pressed brick, and is well furnished with modern conveniences
-   for work in this branch of engineering.
-   Two large brick dormitories on the campus afford boarding
2   conveniences for students who wish to lessen expense in this
i  Y direction. Other buildings on the campus are a brick dwelling
for the President and a cottage occupied by the Comniandant.
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