Autobiography of a Farm Boy (Classic Reprint)

For thirty years Professor Roberts led the work in agriculture at Cornell University, These were the eventful and triumphant years of 1873 1903. They began in doubt and with small things, but they were large with faith. He developed one of the best institutions of its kind. Only ten or eleven years had elapsed since the passage of theL and Grant A ct, at which time instruction in agriculture was given a national sanction. A few colleges had made the effort to organize the subject into teaching form and to collect the equipment and develop the farms that were necessary to the new enterprise. Even Michigan, the oldest of the existing North American colleges of agriculture, had been under way only sixteen years. Cornell had given instruction five years. From the first, agriculture had had its appointed place in the institution; but the work was not really established until Professor Roberts came. He came from a farm and with the traditions of farming. He had had experience in the new institution in I owa.
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