. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. (Winship) Robbins, born May 10, 1844. Edu-cated in the town schools and reared to farm life, he haspursued the agricultural calling with devotion and a goodmeasure of success, first working for others and ulti-mately for himself. In December, 1868, he married Abby E. Wheeler ofNew Ipswich, being at that time engaged in the emplovof an uncle of his bride, in whose service he remainedabout a year. Subsequently they resided for a 3ear in 2l6 NEW HAMPSHIRE Townsend, Mass., returning to take charge of home, the wif
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. (Winship) Robbins, born May 10, 1844. Edu-cated in the town schools and reared to farm life, he haspursued the agricultural calling with devotion and a goodmeasure of success, first working for others and ulti-mately for himself. In December, 1868, he married Abby E. Wheeler ofNew Ipswich, being at that time engaged in the emplovof an uncle of his bride, in whose service he remainedabout a year. Subsequently they resided for a 3ear in 2l6 NEW HAMPSHIRE Townsend, Mass., returning to take charge of home, the wife of the latter having died. Heremained there some time, his wife having charge of thehouse, and himself engaged upon the farm. He wasafterward engaged for a year in Ashby, Mass., and thentook charge of the town farm in that place, which hemanaged successfully two years, when he removed tothe farm on which he now resides, which he had pur-chased meanwhile. It was then what is generallyknown as a run-down farm, and produced no more. Farm Home of L. Harland Kobiuxs, Mason. forage than would have sufficed to keep tliree cows anda pair of horses. Mr. Robbins went to work systematically and ear-nestly, with the determination to effect a change for thebetter, and he has continued the work of improvementiVom that time to the present, keeping now upon theplace a stock of some twenty-tive head of cattle and fivehorses, two hundred and fifty hens, and ten to fifteenswine, meanwhile having constructed a fine, commodi-ous barn, and thoroughly remodeled the house, so thathe has one of the best appointed farm homes in the PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 217 vicinity, the attractiveness of which is materially enhancedby the beautiful scenery with which it is surrounded. Mr. Robbins has followed mixed farming, thoughmaking quite a specialty of small fruits at one time, par-ticularly berries, selling from $400 to $500 worth ofstrawberries, raspberries, and blackberries in a made a trial o
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