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asium `- Two hundred and fifty-three periodicals are regularly received by ` ` ' , A
i the library. , ` '
seated The Experiment Station Library, consisting of 6,500 volumes, is 4
id was Q an independent but closely allied organization, and affords material `
hwith l for the research student in agriculture, chemistry, and allied subjects. " _
estone » This library has depository catalogs of the publications of the U. S.
l with ~ Department of Agriculture and the Experiment Stations of the United `
xtend-   States. Two hundred and twenty-five periodicals are currently re- _
>rnice, ceived. ,
issive, . ' _
lonial,   Laboratories. `
g was i . Agr0n0my—The Department of Agronomy has laboratories on the
arallel .- _ _ _ _ _ _ _
xt, was   tlnrd floor of the Agricultural Building for instructional work in farm ~
V addr i crops and in soils. The farm crops laboratory is equipped, and sam- _
i‘ ples of farm crops are provided for laboratory work in farm crops.
houses,   The soils laboratory is equipped for work in soils physics and soil ` i
7 bam,   fertility, and contains the usual apparatus found in such laboratories. .
im for   The Department also has a laboratory on the first floor of Scovell E
; Small   Hall equipped for research work in certain lines of soil technique. ’
E farm   This laboratory is available for a limited amount of advanced instruc· ' .
a new i tional work.
l Animal Husbandry——In the basement of the Agricultural Building ‘
l is situated the two dairy laboratories of the Animal Husbandry Depart-
, ment. In one of the laboratories the students are taught to test
  milk and cream for its butter fat content and also how to deter-
{0 uw { mine the acidity of milk and to use the lactometer. In the second
}€H€"‘l l laboratory the students are taught to make butter and cheese. The
ud um   laboratories contain various kinds of separators, churns, butter work-
$$080*   ers, Babcock testers and other kinds of dairy equipment. Also the
l cows and dairy utensils at the dairy farm of the Experiment Station
304 { are utilized in teaching students. A three-story building has just
750 I been erected on the farm of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment
000 l Station which will be utilized in teaching students poultry husbandry.
426 i lli the basement there is an 1800 egg Mammoth incubator and various
550 2 Olher kinds of smaller incubators. The second floor contains a labor-
450 &t0l`Y where students will be taught to dress fowls and to carry on
100 Various poultry studies. The third floor will be arranged as a class
500 1'00m for poultry instruction, The other equipment at the poultry 1
-6 farm consists of twenty-live diilerent types of poultry houses and
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