Flint Laboratory is an academic building and a former dairy laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was the first building of the Ellis Drive "agricultural group", including Stockbridge Hall and an unbuilt hall for agricultural mechanics.[1] At the time of its completion, the laboratory was considered to be "one of the best equipped dairy buildings in the United States"[2] and was described as "a model for the whole country" in one edition of the Works Progress Administration guidebook to Massachusetts.[3] The building was named after Charles L. Flint, the university's fourth president, the first secretary of the state board of agriculture, a lecturer on dairy farming, and a prolific agricultural writer who wrote a well-received textbook on "Milch Cows" in the late 19th century.
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^Massachusetts; a guide to its places and people. Boston: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts. Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1937. p. 127. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
