Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-04
AT THE CENTENNIAL.
Tho Asricaltural nuildipg.s-APraage1ents
fer the Display, Ktc.-.Isterestiug stats.
tics. Do .i..

Tho AGricalsural Baildisg.s-Arraaae1en
for the Display, Ktc..-Istsrsstins stats
tics.
A correspondent, writing from Phila
delphia, says The agricultural build
ing ia not yet completed, but workmel
are no concentrating their energies up0I
it that it will be ready in season. 1t vii
be built almost entirely of wood ant
glass, and cover more than ten acres. !,
will consist OF central nave crossed BY
three transepts, both nave and transepts
being composed Of Howe truss arches oi
q Gothic form. The nave will be 62f
leet long by one hundred feet wide, each
end projecting one hundred feet beyond
the square Of the building. with height
Of seventy-6ve feet from the floor to the
point Of the arch. The central tranaept
viii be Of the same height and one hun.
dred feet broad; the two end transepts
seventy feet high and eighty feet broad.
The four courts inclosed between the
nave and transepts, and also probably
the fonr spaces at the corner Of the
building, having the nave aud end tran
septs for two Of their sides, will be
rooted and form places for exhibits
Thus the ground plan OF the building
will be para telegram of 466 by $50
feet. It's outside will be rather imposing
in size and color, but it's interior, shelter
ing the ponderous aud homely utensils
of the yard and farm, will have no other
finish than an alum wash over rough
timber. It will be full, lighted by Ian
tern skylights, and direct from the roof
by system of skylights and ventilstors
combined. In the immediate vicinity
will be stock yards for the exhibition Of
horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry,
etc.
For the exhibition, at work, OF reap.
ers, plows and drills, a farm of forty
seven acres has been secured at Nesha-
money station, seventeen miles distant,
on the Philadelphia and Trenton rail
road. Another farm. of the same acre.
age, adjoining, and sowed with grain. is
secured, in case the number of reapers
for trial shall warrant its use. And
about hree-quarters of a mile this side
of Neshamoney, at Eddington station,
still another farm of some ffty acres, for
reapers, aud farm of forty five acres,
for mowers, have been reserved.
All and much more than the space in
the agricultural building has been ap-
piled for, and the head of the depart
me Mt has been compelled to solicit the
director generals permission to erect
additional buildings. At present, the |
Of space is:
To England and all her colonies, ex-
cept Canada, 18, 45square feet; Canada,
1904 square feet France, 1854
square feet; Russia, 6,785 square feet;
Spain, 6,O05 square feet; Netherlands,
1, ,276 square feet; Germany, 4, 1916 square
feet; Belgium, 1901 square feeti, JUS
tria, 1882 square feet; Sweds 03
,quare feet; Norway, 1880 q II
Denmark, 500 square fes1 "
|, ,020 square feet; Japan}
'eet; Siam and other East1
!, ,220 square feet; Brazil, 4,
'eet; Chill, 2,453 square feeS n.
,632 square feet; Argentine Rep "a
)69 square feet; Liberia, 1856 sdQ ~
eet. Total, 80. .473 square feet. "
The total space in the agricultural 4
building is 236.572 square feet. there
nra 1A7 mn -'' #
,HOREY & BAILEY, /.
ST. JoHNsBURY, VT. IL