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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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20 V=^ We present here the perspective and the plans of the basement and first floor of the barn recently erected on the Stock Farm of the Industrial University. The barn has a north and west front of 80 feet each. Each limb, or ell, is 40 feet wide. It is of the kind known as a side-hill barn. In the basement plan, the Basement Plan. space m a r k e d E is a root cellar. C t h e cook room, furnished with a steam boiler to steam food, a n d a small engine to furnish power for grinding, threshing a n d cutt i n g . D is a set of hog pens, a n d E another set of pens or y a r d u n d e r t h e shed which extends along both sides of the b a r n in t h e angle. S represents a set of bull stalls for t h e several breeds. F a series of stalls for fine breeding cows, with calf pens in t h e r e a r of each. O O shows t h e place of t h e l a r g e cisterns t a k i n g t h e w a t e r from t h e roofs. I n t h e plan of t h e first floor, B B are bridges. T T T show t r a p doors in t h e r e a r of horse stalls to allow droppings to b e t h r o w n i n t o t h e m a n u r e pit. L shows a series of box stalls for breeding mares* Gr G- grain bins. M a h a r n e s s room. P a l a r g e ventilating t u b e F: or flue, leading from cattle room below to t h e cap above t h e roof There ar% doors in t h e sides of this Main Moor. fine, t h r o u g h which h a y can b e t h r o w n down for feeding t h e cattle. A b o v e t h e m a i n floor a r e ample h a y lofts. PROPERTY AND FUNDS. Besides the lands and buildings already described, which are, with furniture, library, etc., valued at $300,000, the University owns 25,000 acres of well selected lands in Minnesota and Nebraska. It has also endowment funds invested in state and county bonds, amounting to $364,000, besides other property and avails valued at $33,000. The state has appropriated $25,000 to the agricultural department for barns, tools, stock, etc. 5 $20,000 to the horticultural department for green
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