. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. undred and fifty acres, but has been increased byrecently purchased additions to nearly five hundred. Theoriginal frame house, built by Capt. Josiah Bachelder,a century ago, still constitutes a part of the and improvements have been made from timeto time, while a spacious barn 108x40 feet, with cellarunder the whole, was erected a few years since. HON. JOSEPH B. WALKER, Concord. While fruit, poultry, and the dairy have come to berecognized as the leading specialties among New Hamp-shire farmers, hay production, pure an
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. undred and fifty acres, but has been increased byrecently purchased additions to nearly five hundred. Theoriginal frame house, built by Capt. Josiah Bachelder,a century ago, still constitutes a part of the and improvements have been made from timeto time, while a spacious barn 108x40 feet, with cellarunder the whole, was erected a few years since. HON. JOSEPH B. WALKER, Concord. While fruit, poultry, and the dairy have come to berecognized as the leading specialties among New Hamp-shire farmers, hay production, pure and simple, has beentaken up by some, who have a soil peculiarly adapted tograss, and are located near the cities and large villages,which afford a profitable market and ready means forrestoring fertility. Some of the finest farms devoted tothis line of production are found in the vicinity of Con-cord, one of the best of these being that of Hon. JosephB. Walker, located at the head of Main street, whosebroad acres lying mainly between the old Northern and. Hon. Joseph B. Walker. 56 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. Montreal railroad lines, command the admiring attentionof travellers, entering or leaving the city at the north. This farm was hrst owned and occupied by the Walker, the noted first minister of Concord,great-grandfather of the present owner, and one of theoriginal settlers of the place in 1730, who received a pro-prietors share in the lands of the township. At hisdecease, in 1782, the farm descended to his son. JudgeTimothy Walker, who conveyed it to his son, Walker, and at the latters decease it descendedto his son Joseph B., the present owner, then a lad oftenyears, who did not take possession until 1852, it havingbeen meanwhile leased to tenants, and finally coming intohis hands, in a generally reduced condition. Possessed only of such limited practical knowledge ofagriculture as he retained from the experience of hischildhood, Mr. Walker realized,
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