. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. o an interested member of Belknap County PomonaGrange. October 3, 1877, he was united in marriage withAugusta D., daughter of the late Dr. John L. Perley, awell-known physician of Laconia. They have onedaughter, Pearl S., a graduate of the Laconia Highschool, of the class of 1897. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 281 HORACE A. HILL,Derry. Acvriculture in New Hampshire may have retrograded,on the whole, during the last fifty years, as some main-tain, though it is doubtful if such is the case, notwith-standing the depreciation of farm property
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. o an interested member of Belknap County PomonaGrange. October 3, 1877, he was united in marriage withAugusta D., daughter of the late Dr. John L. Perley, awell-known physician of Laconia. They have onedaughter, Pearl S., a graduate of the Laconia Highschool, of the class of 1897. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 281 HORACE A. HILL,Derry. Acvriculture in New Hampshire may have retrograded,on the whole, during the last fifty years, as some main-tain, though it is doubtful if such is the case, notwith-standing the depreciation of farm property in varioussections. If some farms have grown less productive, andothers even returned to the forest state, there are some that have been greatlyimproved, meanwhile,and are now in bettercondition than ever be-fore. A fine exampleof the latter class isfound in the farm ofHorace A. Hill, ofDerry, situated twoand a half miles fromthe railway station, onthe main road to Ches-ter. Mr. Hill, a son ofCharles and HannahT. (Hanson) Hill, wasborn on the farm, No-. Horace A. Hill. vember 14, 1839, his father, a native of Chester, havingpurchased the same and established his home he grew to manhood, enjoying the advantages ofthe district school, and of Pinkerton academy at DerryVillage. Here he has ever resided, and to the cultiva-tion of this farm, from which his father had succeeded,in some seasons, in securing scarcely enough hay towinter a horse and cow, the labor of his life has beenmainly devoted, though he was for some time interested 282 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. in lumbering, and has sold agricultural implements, toa considerable extent, for many years. His farm embraces sixty-six acres of land, of whichabout twenty-two acres are in mowing and tillage, mostlyin a single field, which, by thorough cultivation, has beenbrought into a very productive state, the hay crop aver-aging two tons per acre, while he has grown 108 bushelsof shelled corn, and potatoes at the rate
Size: 1425px × 1754px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidnewham, booksubjectfarmers
