224 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



Annual Reports, comprising 6,326 pages of 

 printed matter. As I look back over them, they 

 testify to the success which the Station met with 

 from the first. Although at the end of the first 

 year I gave in my resignation, the President told 

 me that the Trustees were more than satisfied and 

 that they hoped the question of a Director would 

 not again be raised. Thus I became the permanent 

 head of it, a position which I retained until my 

 departure from the University. 



It was not customary to embody an account of 

 our failures in these reports but one of them may 

 be worth recording here. As I have stated before, 

 Dr. Law and I made several attempts to eradicate 

 tuberculosis from the dairy herd. The disease was 

 very imperfectly understood at that time, so I 

 offered to build a small, sanitary stable at some 

 distance from other buildings, in which to conduct 

 experiments in bovine tuberculosis. 



I had seen for the first time while on a visit to 

 a large potato raiser, Mr. T. B. Terry of Ohio, 

 large hollow vitrified bricks. They were about 

 eight inches square and perhaps two feet long, and 

 I thought they would exactly suit my purpose. So 

 a carload of them was ordered and with them the 

 erection of a double-compartment stable was be- 



