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Illinois Industrial

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STOCK FARM BARN.

The Barn on the Stock Farm has north and west fronts 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 is a root cellar, a cook room, furnished with a steam boiler to steam food, and a small engine to furnish power for grinding, threshing and cutting, a set of hog-pens, another set of pens or yard under the shed, which extends along both sides of the barn in the angle, a set of bull stalls for the several breeds, and a series of stalls for fine breeding cows, with calf pens in the rear. The first floor has horse stalls, a series of box stalls for breeding mares, grain bins, and a harness room. For descriptions of the Mechanical Shops and Drill Hall, see Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Military Science.

PROPERTY AND FUNDS.

Besides the lands and buildings already described, which are, with furniture, library, etc., valued at $400,000, 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 $319,000, besides other property and avails, valued at $33,000. The state has appropriated $25,000 to the Agricultural Department for barns, tools, stock, etc.; $20,000 to the Horticultural Department for green-house, barns, drainage, tools, trees, etc.; $25,000 for Mechanical and Military Building, Machinery, etc.; $127,000 towards the erection of the Main Building, and furnishing the same; $10,500 to furnish the Chemical Laboratory; and $20,000 for Library and Apparatus; $3,000 for the apparatus of a physical laboratory, besides large amounts for agricultural experiments, etc.

LIBRARY.

The Library, which has been carefully selected with reference to the scientific studies required in the several practical courses, includes now about 10,000 volumes. The large Library Hall is fitted up as a reading-