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explain how mortified I was on reading that Cob article, after 

 it was printed, to find what I hadn't said. And the browsing 

 of Capt. Pierce's critters was a point I explicitly asked him 

 about, and intended explicitly to state and intended also to 

 query about the browse of JMiller's cows, but with a head 

 pothered about too many things and no digestion to speak of 

 to bolster it, I got off the track, misled a trifle by the query 

 whether bulk of Rohfaser is needed, and hurried by many 

 things undone and having to write piecemeal. Bah ! for 

 a lodge ! — that last looks like fZodge, well call it dodge, that '11 

 do as well as lodge ! 



The Tribune "euchred" me (whatever that is!) into an- 

 other year's query answering. I like it for it leads me to 

 meditate on many interesting things, and I don't like it for 

 it compels me to attend to many stupid things. I tried to scare 

 the ag. editor off by naming a loud price, but he swallowed my 

 hook and I am a literary hack for 1875, at least. 



You may have noticed that we have been stirring the Exp. 

 Station question here, last two winters and summer — I don't 

 suppose the General Assembly of Conn, will do anything 

 about it except refer it to the next Gen. Ass'y, but the talk 

 will do good and there are a good many fine old farmers and 

 bright young farmers in Connecticut (as elsewhere in New 

 England and westward) who are getting their ag. College 

 education out of the discussions. Then the S. S. School has 

 an interest (manly one) in doing good to the Conn, farmers. 



My Sisyphean bowlder now is a new edition of ' ' Fresenius ' 

 Qualitative" translated into new system — a real need for our 

 School, and ray last push to the Sheffield Laboratory, as I am 

 no longer Professor of "Analytical" and have given the 

 Labty over to Allen and Mixter, simply sitting up aloft among 

 the thunder, a kind of Jupiter of reference, and when I get 

 gray and sallow enough — and I haven't long to wait, — shall 

 be merry within, at the awe I may inspire among the youths. 



By the way, we have analyzed a com cob, and it doesn't 

 come up to the entkornte maiskolben aus Steyermark that 



