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interest. While the house was being repaired in 

 a summer vacation, we lived in the classrooms in 

 Morrill Hall. About a year later in this re- 

 modelled house my youngest son, Roger Marr 

 Roberts, was born on July 12, 1876. For the sake 

 of finishing what I have to say about my dwellings, 

 I may add that in 1877-78 I built a comfortable 

 house on East Avenue, which is now owned and 

 occupied by one of my former students, Professor 

 Stocking of the Dairy Department. 



When I took charge of the farm there was no 

 provision for the farm hands; they had to live 

 either in the town of Ithaca or the little village 

 now called Forest Home, in either case far from 

 their work. They sometimes drank too much and 

 were tired out in climbing the hill before the day's 

 work began, for at this time there was, of course, 

 no street car to the Campus. It was imperative 

 that they should live near their work so I began 

 by having an old carpenter shop which stood near 

 the barns, repaired and into it the dairyman and 

 his family moved. Hard by stood a small building 

 which Dr. Law had used when dissecting horses, 

 and which had been abandoned because someone 

 who lived near by objected to the use made of it. 

 This little veterinary laboratory was moved away 



