LIFE AND WORK AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 1 8 1 



stayed at Cornell one year and afterward went to 

 Guelph, Ontario, Canada, to be the head of the 

 Provincial Agricultural School. About two years 

 later a Government Committee investigated this 

 institution and he was dismissed. 



It was upon the heels of these mistakes and after 

 five years of such mismanagement that I took 

 charge of the Cornell farm and the courses in 

 Agriculture. Although I had been led to believe 

 that there was an appropriation of $10,000 for 

 putting the College on its feet, I found that this 

 had disappeared and that everything was in a 

 most discouraging condition. Coming as I did 

 from the Iowa College where I had been doing 

 things in a large way if not always in the best 

 way to New York which I had looked upon as a 

 great State, and to a University founded upon 

 broad and ideal lines, my expectations had been 

 high ; and when I discovered the true condition of 

 affairs, they sank low lower, perhaps than even 

 these untoward conditions warranted. It did not 

 take me long to decide that one year at Cornell 

 would be enough unless many things which I could 

 scarcely hope for, should come to pass. 



Since to look gloomy and to complain would not 

 help matters, I set to work to eradicate disease and 



