178 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



The University farm was under a lease which 

 did not expire until the following April and there 

 was very little teaching to be done, there being 

 only three senior students in agriculture, and they 

 having already taken their technical training under 

 my predecessor, Professor McCandless. There 

 were two, John L. Stone and William R. Lazenby 

 both of whom are now well-known professors 

 in Agriculture, the one at Cornell and the other at 

 Ohio University and a few strays to whom I 

 gave an hour of instruction per day, five days in 

 the week for the rest of that year. This left me 

 plenty of time to look over the situation and to 

 realize how different our conditions were to be 

 from those in Iowa. 



From an ample farmhouse to three living rooms 

 in Cascadilla Place; from an 8oo-acre farm, where 

 in one year I had raised 5,000 bushels of corn, 

 to one of less than 100 acres of arable land; 

 from a herd of 100 cattle, representing four; 

 breeds, to one of twelve miserable cows ; from set- 

 ting fifty to seventy-five students at work every 

 morning to directing five hired men; from large 

 classes of enthusiastic pupils and ample classrooms 

 to a museum for a lecture room and a pocket edi- 

 tion of a class such were the comparisons that 

 I instinctively made in those first months. 



