. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. f the noted JohnRogers, the martyr otSmithfield. Removingwith his parents toCanterbury when fouryears of age, he wasthere reared on a farmand familiarized withall the details of farmlife, the care of stockbeing one of the fea-tures which most fullycommanded his devo-tion. Circumstances,however, impelled himto leave the farm andengage in mercantilelife in Concord, where he continued, in different lines,for about thirty-three years, with the exception of a termof service in the Union army in the late war, as a mem-ber of the Fifteenth New
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. f the noted JohnRogers, the martyr otSmithfield. Removingwith his parents toCanterbury when fouryears of age, he wasthere reared on a farmand familiarized withall the details of farmlife, the care of stockbeing one of the fea-tures which most fullycommanded his devo-tion. Circumstances,however, impelled himto leave the farm andengage in mercantilelife in Concord, where he continued, in different lines,for about thirty-three years, with the exception of a termof service in the Union army in the late war, as a mem-ber of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers. In 1890, feeling the need of a change for the benefitof his health, he determined to return to love for good horses had been indulged to a con-siderable extent while in business in Concord, and uponcommencing farm operations upon the old Jacob Gerrishplace at North Boscawen, he first turned his attention tothe breeding of trotting horses, which he pursued tor atime with success, but on the decline of this branch of. Augustine R. Avers. 114 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. farm industry he changed to dairying. His attentionhaving been directed to the Holstein-Freisian as a desir-able dairy animal, he secured, through ex-GovernorGoodell and others, a tew good registered animals of thisbreed, from the Russell importation, and has steadilyincreased and improved his herd, which now numbersabout thirty-five head altogether, including some excel-lent representatives of the best strains. He milks abouteighteen cows, giving them good ordinary care and
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