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The season was propitious and a satisfactory harvest was secured. 

 A part of the crop was cut with the cradle and a part with the Osborn 

 self-binder, the first one ever used on the farm. On the level three 

 horses were used, but going up-hill my carriage team was hitched in 

 the lead and an extra man with a hand-rake was required to keep the 

 cut material from sliding backward off the fiat conveyor which delivers 

 the grain to the second carrier and thence to the binder. In those 

 days, many students worked on the farm with the double result of 

 receiving money with which to continue their College course and train- 



FiG. 164. — The other side of the hill on zvhich the Roberts pasture is located. 

 These tzco pastures represent the difference between care and neglect. 



ing in handicraft and judgment. How quickly the improvement in 

 judgment sometimes occurred may be seen from the following incident. 

 Mr. W. R. Lazenby, then a student at Cornell, now a professor in the 

 University of Ohio, was helping to haul Jthe wheat from this pasture 

 to the bams on one of those hot, muggy days which often precede a 

 thunder storm. A part of one load slid off the wagon, of course, on the 

 down-hill side, and with the next, the load, wagon and driver went 

 over and over down the hill together. When at last the wheat reached 

 the bam, Mr. Lazenby, while mopping his face, made this remark: 

 "Professor, I don't think it pays to raise grain on such steep fields," 



