STATEMENT BY L. H. BAILEY 



For thirty years Professor Roberts led the work 

 in agriculture at Cornell University. These were 

 the eventful and triumphant years of 1873 to 

 1903. They began in doubt and with small 

 things, but they were large with faith. He de- 

 veloped one of the best institutions of its kind. 



Only ten or eleven years had elapsed since the 

 passage of the Land Grant Act, at which time 

 instruction in agriculture was given a national 

 sanction. A few colleges had made the effort 

 to organize the subject into teaching form and to 

 collect the equipment and develop the farms that 

 were necessary to the new enterprise. Even 

 Michigan, the oldest of the existing North 

 American colleges of agriculture, had been under 

 way only sixteen years. Cornell had given instruc- 

 tion five years. From the first, agriculture had 

 had its appointed place in the institution; but 

 the work was not really established until Professor 

 Roberts came. He came from a farm and with 

 the traditions of farming. He had had experience 

 in the new institution in Iowa. He put himself 



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