The basement of the building is used for assaying, for the preparation of distilled water and for storage. The air pump and the mixer of the gas machine for supplying the laboratories with gas are placed in this basement and connected. with the generator, which is buried eighty-five feet from the building.

On the first floor of the new building there are nine rooms, all of which are appropriated to the chemical work of the State and of the Experiment Station. On one side of the wide hall, which extends the entire length of the building, are the rooms for the analysis of fertilizers. Three of these rooms are used respectively for the determination of phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash; the fourth as a balance room; the fifth and last as a sample room. On the other side of the hall there are four rooms. The largest of these is used for the agricultural analysis of the Experiment Station. Adjoining this is a balance room, in which provision is made also for the optical and electrolytic apparatus. Of the remaining rooms, one is used for water analysis, the other as an office.

On the second floor of this building there are seven rooms; a lecture room, and six smaller rooms which are used for recitations, cabinets, apparatus, chemicals, library and professor's laboratory.

The lecture room will seat one hundred and seventy students, the seats being arranged in tiers.

The hoods in this building are all connected by earthenware pipes with a tightly-built room just under the roof, over which there is a large ventilator.

The rooms in the basement are used for assaying ores, for the preparation of agricultural products for analysis, and for storage. An electric motor located in one of these rooms supplies the power which drives the machinery for grinding and pulping samples of vegetable substances.

Department of Textile Industry

The building is a brick structure of modern cotton mill design, 168 by 75. It is of the slow burning type, built according to fire insurance regulations, after plans of an experienced mill engineer. The building, although designed for educational and experimental purposes, containing offices, lecture rooms and laboratories, retains the more prominent features of a typical southern cotton mill. This affords the students an opportunity of gaining many points of valuable information in connection with mill construction, along with the manipulation of cotton fibres and the study of cotton mill processes and operations.

The first floor is occupied by the carding and spinning machinery, a lecture room, the main office, an exhibit room and the departmental library. The machinery on this floor is driven by two electric motors, one a 22 K. W. 220 volt direct current Westinghouse motor, driving the carding machinery, and a 15 K. W. 220 volt direct current General Electric Co. motor, driving the spinning machinery.

The second floor is occupied by the experimental dyeing laboratory, hand looms, power looms, a lecture room and two offices. The power machinery on this floor is driven by a 15 K. W. 220 volt direct current General Electric Co. motor.

The basement, which is situated under the right hand half of building, is occupied by the dye-house, and is nicely equipped for that purpose.

The building is equipped with a system of "Vortex” humidifiers from the American Moistening Co.; steam heating system and automatic fire sprinklers from The D. A. Tompkins Company; shafting, pulleys and hangers, from Jones and Laughlin, Ltd., and from T. B. Wood's Sons.

Carding Division

Pickers-One Atherton automatic feeder; one Atherton breaker; one Atherton finisher lapper, with evener motion. Cards-One Saco & Pettee 40-in. revolving top flat card; one Mason 40-in. revolving top flat card; two traverse wheel grinders; two drum traverse grinders; stripping and burnishing rolls; two complete sets of carder's tools.

Combing-One Mason sliver lap machine; one Mason ribbon lap machine; one Mason six-head combing machine.

Railway Heads-One Saco & Pattee railway head, with evener motion, stop motions, and metallic rolls; one Mason railway head, with evener motion, stop motions, and metallic rolls.

Drawing-One Saco & Pettee drawing frame, 4 deliveries, stop motions, and metallic rolls; one Mason drawing frame, 4 deliveries, stop motions, and metallic rolls.

Fly Frames-One Saco & Pettee 12-in.x6-in. 40 spindle slubber, with latest differential motion; one Saco & Pettee 8-in.x4-in. 60 spindle intermediate roving frame, with latest differential motion; one Saco & Pettee 7-in.x3 1-2-in. 80 spindle fine roving frame, with latest differential motion; one Woonsocket 6-in.x2 1-2-in., 96 spindle jack roving frame, with Daly's improved differential motion.

Spinning Division

Ring Spinning-One Saco & Pettee combination warp and filling ring spinning frame, 128 spindles; one Mason combination warp and filling ring spinning frame, 112 spindles ; two Fales & Jenks combination warp and filling ring spinning frames, 80 spindles each, designed for spinning fine counts; two Whitin combination warp and filling ring spinning frames, 80 spindles each.

Mule Spinning-One Mason self-acting spinning mule, 120 spindles, 1 3-4-in. gauge, with all latest improvements.