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animals. In 1873, the Eighth Duchess of Geneva 

 had sold at public auction at New York Mills, for 

 forty thousand six hundred dollars and other ani- 

 mals of the same blood for nearly as much. It was 

 quite natural that Mr. Cornell's son should speak 

 slightingly of my purchase and I felt that it was 

 most unfortunate that I had offended so influential 

 a man. The thing was done, however, and there 

 was nothing that could palliate it. 



Soon afterwards I was diverted by a far more 

 serious trouble; some of my cherished pure-blood 

 animals contracted tuberculosis, probably from 

 germs lurking in the old stables, for thorough disin- 

 fection had not been thought of at that time. With 

 the aid of Dr. Law the battle against it was carried 

 on and when the cattle were moved to the Uni- 

 versal Barn we supposed it was eradicated but 

 we were mistaken. Tuberculin had not yet been 

 used for discovering incipient tuberculosis and it 

 was a long time before we finally had a clean herd. 

 During all this time very little progress could be 

 made in improving the milk-producing power of 

 the herd and in ten years little had been accom- 

 plished toward establishing a herd worthy of an 

 agricultural college. 



I can scarcely expect the reader of these small 

 beginnings and of all these troubles to understand 



