LIFE AND WORK AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 185 



was a stallion of noted Arabian lineage which had 

 been donated to the University and was said to be 

 worth $15,000 but I have always thought that 

 the decimal point ought to have been placed two 

 figures to the left. He had not been out of his 

 box stall for two years. Although he was the sire 

 of a few colts he was withdrawn from service per- 

 haps because his colts did not have legs enough on 

 which to place the curbs, ring-bones, spavins, and 

 deformities, which he was capable of transmitting. 

 When we took that Arab of the Desert out of his 

 stall and rode him, he fell dead ! 



The renter of the University Farm owned a 

 farm in Cortland on which he kept a herd of short- 

 horns and a flock of Merino sheep ; but his public 

 boarding house table at Cascadilla Place was pro- 

 vided with milk and meats from the pick-ups and 

 semi-uddered cows brought from his own farm to 

 the University. And that's the kind of food we 

 fed upon at u The Bastile " in those early days! 



I am giving this circumstantial account of the 

 unhappy conditions which I found on taking 

 charge of the University Farm that you may bet- 

 ter understand how difficult the problems were 

 which I had, by implication at least, promised to 

 solve. So far from being a model to the farmers 



