. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. is education was obtained in theLaconia oriaded schools and the Bristol High school,and at the age of twenty-one he engaged with his fatherin the retail milk business, the partnership continuinguntil the death of the latter, after which he ran the busi-ness himself until 1895, making seventeen years alto-gether in this line, during which time he kept aboutthirty cows on an average. This farm contained origin all v about one hundred andfifty acres, but Mr. Til-ton has added theretoby purchase from timeto time, until it nowembraces four h
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. is education was obtained in theLaconia oriaded schools and the Bristol High school,and at the age of twenty-one he engaged with his fatherin the retail milk business, the partnership continuinguntil the death of the latter, after which he ran the busi-ness himself until 1895, making seventeen years alto-gether in this line, during which time he kept aboutthirty cows on an average. This farm contained origin all v about one hundred andfifty acres, but Mr. Til-ton has added theretoby purchase from timeto time, until it nowembraces four hundredand thirty acres, uponwiiich there are twosets of buildings, whilehe has also a back pas-ture containing abouttwo hundred park and fairgrounds of the BristolFair association are in-cluded within his farmlimits. He has aboutone hundred acres inmowing and tillage, twenty-five acres being under the plow, of which fifteenare generally in corn, and ten in oats and barley, the cornbeing ensilaged, and used in supplementing the one hun-. Zerah E. Tiltox. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 245 dred tons of hay annually cut, along with the oats andbarley, in feeding the forty head of cattle kept on thefarm, together with five iiorses kept for farm work inthe summer, and which are employed in extensive lum-bering operations in winter along with several yokes ofoxen. On his home farm Mr. Tilton has a spacious and con-venient barn no feet long and 40 feet wide, with cellarunder the whole; also two silos of 125 tons capacityeach. He has also a steam mill for doing various kindsof work on the farm, grinding grain, making cider, andpreparing stove wood for market. For a few years pasthe has made a specialty of Holstein cows, of which hehas now about twenty, the milk from the same going tothe Boston market. Mr. Tilton was united in marriage with Miss Georgie-anna Weeks of Bristol, May 22, 1887. He is a chartermember of New Found Lake grange, was its first over-seer, and served
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