. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. FARM, HOPKINTON,WiLLARD T. Greene, Proprietor. Delightfully located upon the highlands overlookingthe Perkins Inn and the business square in Hopkintonvillage, is Maple View Farm, the home of Willard , whose fame as a breeder and trainer of finehorses is only equalled by his reputation as a breeder offancy poultry. Mr. Greene is a son of the late Hon. Herman Fannie (Willard) Greene, his father having been aprominent figure in New Hampshire politics for manyyears. He was born in Hopkinton, June 9, 1856, andhas ever had his h
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. FARM, HOPKINTON,WiLLARD T. Greene, Proprietor. Delightfully located upon the highlands overlookingthe Perkins Inn and the business square in Hopkintonvillage, is Maple View Farm, the home of Willard , whose fame as a breeder and trainer of finehorses is only equalled by his reputation as a breeder offancy poultry. Mr. Greene is a son of the late Hon. Herman Fannie (Willard) Greene, his father having been aprominent figure in New Hampshire politics for manyyears. He was born in Hopkinton, June 9, 1856, andhas ever had his home in that town. He was educatedin the district school, at Hopkinton academy, and theNew Hampshire Conference seminary at Tilton. Witha natural love for horses, he became a successful trainerand driver in early life, and for the last fifteen years ormore, since his marriage and occupancy of Maple ViewFarm, he has been engaged in breeding fine-bloodedhorses, mostly of the Wilkes strain. Among the bestknown of these are Lady Helen —2 :25i, with a trial. > 236 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. of 2:142^, and Simbrino—2:22^. He was tlie firstman in the state, it is believed, to breed and develop ahorse to trot in 2 : 20 over a half-mile track in NewHampshire, and he has brought out a number thathave beaten 2 : 30. He has personally given up trackdriving of late on account of the danger involved, and isdevoted exclusively to the breeding of gentlemens high-class road horses and fanc}^ poultrv. He has bred fan-cy poultry since 1874. PlymouthRocks were his spe-cialty for sometime,of which variety hebred birds selling at$25 each, and someof which have wonprizes at leading ex-hibitions all overthe country. Oflate, he has takenup the Black Lang-shang, which he re-gards as superior toany other of theAsiatic class f o rwinter e^g produc-tion. He has a finely appointed, two-story henhouse,with ample yards, and keeps some 300 birds. He breedsabout 500 chickens annually, and sells chickens a
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