The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-04
MAIN BUILDINGS OF
EXPERIMENT STATION
ON E'FlLl PROPERTY
DEAN MORGAN MAKES TENTA,
TIVE OUTLINE OF LOCATION
CT PLOTS AND HOUSES.
BEAU .IfUL LRtVE FLAME j
Practically Everything on Big Farm,
VIII be Visible From Railroad and
TWO PiHes--S1co,ooo to be spent OF
Equipment.

Equipment.
J There will not be a more beautiful
or a more efficient experiment sta
: ton in the South than the one that is
being established between the Mt
Pleasant and Hampshire pixies about
a mile west Of Columbia, according
TO Dean H. A. Morgan of the college
of agriculture, University of Tenne3
see, who with Prof. c. A. Wilson, live
stock expert, was on the ground yes
terday and today locating the sites fc
buildings, barns, roads, pastures ana
experimental plots. &c.,.
"A tente tive map of the experiment
station land as arranged by Dean Nor,
gan and his assistants shows that the
administration buildings will be To-
Gated on the Geo. McFall property
near the center of the 500 acre tract
The dairy barn will be east of the
administration building and the bee
and general utility barn will be lie,
Gated west of the administration
building The tract will be divide!
into three distinct units, the dairy
unit lying in that section toward the
| Military academy, the breeding anl
beef unit on the Hampshire pike size
and the hog and feeding unit lying
along the Mt. Pleasant pike.
|, A road will be constructed throu-h
the property, beginning at the oil /
railroad cut now used as a road tribu
| tary to the HAMPSHIRE pike. At the
| end of this grade the road will follow.
natural level through the propert.
passing the main barn, the admiaIs
tration building and connecting with |
the road that enters the propel ty By |
the side of tie C., p Hatcher property |
land ousths road to the Mt. Pleasant
pike. ya
Every detail of the arrangements is
such that it will afford the meximum
Of service and at the same time be
convenient Tor the observation tao
public Although ncthing+#fll be do~Gl
especially for show, the idea that the
.EuDlic viii vaht to see what is ben&
done is not, lost sight of. The roai1
through the property is without
grade RI any consideration and pass
under the Louisville & Nashville rail
road. From either cad Of it practical |
iy'the entire station is visible, ant
the buildings will he located 50, tina
they VII be visible also from thesl
louisville & Nashville railroad an,
from either of the pixies The ro}d |
will be macadamiged and may be u
Unsatisfactory agreement, turned
over to. the county as public road.
The agronomy, horticultural anG
poultry demonstration plots have no
Tcon Ifcatc, The Plans ia, ~,
been made we've. said by Dean Nor
Fan to be entirely tentative and wi
DEPEND upon further developments in
the plans.
The state will spend 100000 OH
BUILDINGS and equipment for the sta.
ton, but it is not likely that any
thing will be constructed the first
10 in, no hn |
dairy harm. Some of the residences
and houses on the various farms in
the tract will be utilized until the new
buildings are constructed, while
others will be torn away.
Dean Morgan stated this morning
that brilding material is so high now
that he did not think it would be
wise tc construct anything that is not
absolutely necessary until after the
war. But nothing that Is essential to
the immediate operation of expert
menta, work will be omitted from the
equipment
Every available acre of the land to
he owned by the state will be cult.
waited this yearsboth as a matter OF
business and as a test of the soils. 1t |
is the purpose of the college of agri-
culture to produce enough feedstuff
during the next crop season to take
care o. all the livestock during the
following year.