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gun. When it was just about ready for the roof 

 timbers, President White stopped the building 

 because he feared that the flies from this veterinary 

 laboratory would reach his barn and house and 

 carry the germs of this dreaded disease with them. 

 So this second attempt to build a veterinary labora- 

 tory came to naught and after a year or two Pro- 

 fessor Bailey tore it down and used those hollow 

 bricks, on which I had counted so much, as founda- 

 tion material for his forcing houses. It is amus- 

 ing to remember in this connection that the large 

 buildings of the Veterinary College were later 

 placed as close to the President's house on 

 the south as my little veterinary house had been 

 on the east and thereby hangs a tale but it is 

 not for me to tell ! 



It was our custom to conduct simple investiga- 

 tions away from the College on the farms of men 

 who were willing to cooperate with us, and an ex- 

 tensive experiment in sugar-beet culture was so 

 conducted under a State appropriation. Some par- 

 ties in Binghamton became interested in beet cul- 

 ture and as there were no data at that time as to 

 yield or quality of beets raised in New York, we 

 gladly took up this line of investigation. For three 

 consecutive years we procured seeds of improved 



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