STATEMENT BY L. H. BAILEY 3 



He loved the farm; from the rail fence to the 

 back lot, the trees in the pasture, the woodside, the 

 orchard, every animal in stall or field, the high 

 land and the low land, all were his to walk over, 

 to question, to inspect with care, and to improve. 

 It was one of the delights of his teaching to take 

 his " boys " to the farm. He was a master in the 

 practice of observing farm conditions, why the 

 grass was thin here and heavy there, why the 

 weeds came in, why the animals chose the spot on 

 which to lie, how to run the drains, to build a 

 fence, to put up a shed or barn, to paint a building, 

 how to break a horse, how to breed a herd from 

 a common foundation, how to sell a crop, what the 

 weather meant, how to bring an old field back 

 into good condition. He did not teach some small 

 department of farm knowledge as we do in these 

 days, but the whole farm and the farmer and the 

 wife and the children and the hired man ; and he 

 taught it with a quiet and genial philosophy, often 

 quaint and always full of good humor. He was 

 the real teacher of the small group, preferring the 

 out-of-doors and the barns and the herds to the 

 formal laboratories. I have never known anyone 

 to make such good educational use of an entire 

 farm and its equipment. 



