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how important they were to me. To displease the 

 son of the truly great man who had given his life 

 and fortune to Cornell University -was a grief to 

 me and scarcely less to offend the Governor of the 

 State. Some of my mistakes I now attribute to the 

 fact that I was too secretive and had no intimate 

 friend with whom I could take counsel; but some 

 of them were due to pioneer conditions and must 

 have been made by any teacher of agriculture. 

 And through it all for many years I felt that the 

 College of Agriculture existed only by sufferance 

 and that I had no real sympathy or cooperation 

 from the Trustees. I sometimes wonder now why 

 I struggled on why I did not quit the job; and I 

 can only suppose that it was because the dream of 

 what might be done still lured me on. 



I believed that if I won out at all it must be by 

 doing something for the State which others had 

 not been able to do. The University needed a 

 large and highly productive dairy not only to edu- 

 cate the students but to educate the dairymen of 

 the State so that they would improve their dairies, 

 for milk production was one of the foremost of 

 its industries. Year after year I quietly picked up 

 a Jersey here and a Holstein there, bred grades 

 and a few pure-bloods, sold every season the 



