. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. giving up these industriesand going into dairying, sujjplemented by the raising ofswine. He has kept from 20 to 40 cows, and raised andfattened as many hogs each year. His butter is sold atwholesale at 25 cents per pound the entire (»F John Bailey, Claremont. Mr. Bailey had always turned a deaf ear to all sugges-tions of office-holding, until the new^ school law went intoeffect, wdien, being a firm believer in all its provisions,he accepted a position as a member of the board of edu-cation. In that capacity he served two su
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. giving up these industriesand going into dairying, sujjplemented by the raising ofswine. He has kept from 20 to 40 cows, and raised andfattened as many hogs each year. His butter is sold atwholesale at 25 cents per pound the entire (»F John Bailey, Claremont. Mr. Bailey had always turned a deaf ear to all sugges-tions of office-holding, until the new^ school law went intoeffect, wdien, being a firm believer in all its provisions,he accepted a position as a member of the board of edu-cation. In that capacity he served two successive terms,during which time a new school building was erectedand many of the old ones, in sparsely settled districts,abandoned, the scholars being conveyed to gradedschools in central pomts. At the expiration of his termof office, he had the satisfaction of leaving the schools13 194 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. much improved in method, and the standard in the inter-mediate and grammar grades raised materially, whilethe friction attendant upon ..he change had subsided, andthe people became eminently satisfied with the change. Mr. Bailey has a son and three daughters. The sonis a farmer in Claremont. Two married daughtersreside in Antrim. The youngest, unmarried, is ateacher. In politi
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