. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. pursued, with special attentionto different lines at different times. Potato culture wasonce a leading feature, and 3,000 bushels of potatoesproduced in a year. Subsequently sheep husbandrywas largely engaged in, and 250 sheep kept on theplace. At present milk production is the leading fea-ture, about twenty-five cows being kept and some 7,000cans shipped annually. Ensilage from a silo of seventy-five tons capacity constitutes an item of the food supply. Mr. Carr is a leading and honored citizen of Wilmot,and has served his townsmen as
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. pursued, with special attentionto different lines at different times. Potato culture wasonce a leading feature, and 3,000 bushels of potatoesproduced in a year. Subsequently sheep husbandrywas largely engaged in, and 250 sheep kept on theplace. At present milk production is the leading fea-ture, about twenty-five cows being kept and some 7,000cans shipped annually. Ensilage from a silo of seventy-five tons capacity constitutes an item of the food supply. Mr. Carr is a leading and honored citizen of Wilmot,and has served his townsmen as selectman, as supervisorfor several years, and in the legislature, to which he waschosen in 1881, being the first Republican elected in thatstrong Democratic town. He is also now serving histhird term as a member of the school board. He joinedKearsarge Grange No. 87 at its re-organization in 1878 ;was five years master and two years lecturer of thatgrange ; is an active member of the Merrimack CountyPomona Grange ; served two years as district deputy of. John M. Carr. I06 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. the State Grange, and has been twice chosen upon itsexecutive committee, of which he is now a member. Heis a vice-president of the Merrimack County GrangeFair Association, and president of the local section of theNew England Milk Producers Union. ? He has alsobeen for thirty-five years a member of the Masonic fra-ternity. His son and only child, Joseph Bertrand Carr, a prom-ising 3oung man, died from consumption at the earlyage of twenty-four, eight months after his marriage withLuvia M. Collins of Wilmot. Six months later his wifedied, and the sons widow, the younger Mrs. Carr, hasremained at the head of the household, the guiding spiritof a true New England country home, taking an interestin all that pertains to the success of the farm work andin the social and educational welfare of the community,to whose progress Mr. Carr himself has been such animportant contributing factor. STE
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