LIFE AND WORK AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 179 



The history of the University farm and the at- 

 tempts at agricultural education were even more 

 disheartening. I learned that the farm had first 

 been placed in the hands of a Mr. Spaulding, a 

 man of delicate health who of necessity spent most 

 of his time in summer at some health resort; the 

 inevitable result was neglect, followed by weak 

 apologies for its unsightly conditions. In the hope 

 of bettering matters, the farm was then leased to 

 a Cortland farmer who moved into Cascadilla 

 in those days everybody moved into '* The 

 Bastile " as the students dubbed it and he was 

 supposed to give the University one-third of the 

 proceeds of the land. 



Meanwhile, President Andrew D. White, while 

 in Europe, had selected Professor James Law, a 

 young Scotchman, to be the head of the Veterinary 

 Department a department that has now grown 

 into the State Veterinary College and is one of the 

 best of its kind in America. About 1872 the 

 President also called an Irishman, a Mr. McCand- 

 less from Glasnevin to the Chair of Agriculture. 

 Professor McCandless declined to have anything 

 to do with the farm until a large barn had been 

 built after his own plans. Ezra Cornell was de- 

 termined to get the Department of Agriculture 



