LIFE AND WORK AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 189 



seed is sown at the time of seeding to wheat and 

 the wheat should be injured by the winter, the 

 timothy, being hardier and more vigorous, will 

 have the advantage and the harvest is likely to 

 show as much headed-out timothy as wheat. In 

 the spring six quarts to the acre of mixed red and 

 alsike clover seed were also sowed. 



To harvest the wheat, I purchased a self twine- 

 binder, which I think was the first in that region. 

 We had a regular two-ring circus cutting that 

 wheat. When the machine ran parallel to the hills 

 it would upset if someone did not hold down the 

 grain-wheel; then we started straight up from the 

 bottom of the hill with my carriage team hitched 

 on ahead of the three-horse team; but now the 

 grain would slide off the endless apron unless 

 someone held it on with a hand rake. In spite of 

 every care the grain went to the binder much 

 tangled; then the binder kicked or rather re- 

 fused to kick the sheaves out of the goose-neck. 



Mr. W. R. Lazenby, who was then a senior in 

 College and is now a Professor in Ohio University, 

 helped to draw in the grain one torrid August day. 

 The first load upset and the wagon with it and it 

 was a couple of hours before a part of a load ar- 

 rived at the barn. Mr. Lazenby took a drink of 



