6 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



In 1869 he was called to the position of Super- 

 intendent of the Farm and Secretary of the Board 

 of Trustees of the Iowa Agricultural College at 

 Ames, and shortly afterward was made Professor 

 of Agriculture. In 1873 ne accepted a similar 

 position at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 

 and a little later was made Dean of the Faculty 

 of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion. During the thirty years of his service at Cor- 

 nell he wrote voluminously on agricultural subjects, 

 as Associate Editor on the staff of The Country 

 Gentleman, about fourteen hundred short articles 

 chiefly in answer to queries; and four scientific 

 books, i. e., The Fertility of The Land which has 

 gone to several editions and is still in general use 

 as a College textbook; The Farmers' Business 

 Handbook of which a second edition has recently 

 been published; The Farmstead and The Horse. 



At the age of seventy he retired with the title 

 of Professor Emeritus, receiving an honorary pen- 

 sion from the Carnegie Foundation for his serv- 

 ices; and settled in Palo Alto, California. At the 

 death of his wife in December, 1913, he went to 

 live with his youngest son at Fresno, California, 

 where he spends his winters. In the summer of 

 1915 he finished this narrative at the home of his 

 daughter in Berkeley, California. 



