. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. terof Eastern New Hampshire Pomona Grange, and at thepresent time is serving his second term as member ofthe State Board of Agriculture for Strafford a number of years he served as chairman of the General Fruit Com-mittee of the Ameri-can Pomological Soci-ety and is at present adirector, and chairmanof the Committee onNomenclature of theNew Hampshire Hor-ticultural Society. Hehas been a frequentcontributor to the agri-cultural press, and nowconducts the Farm andGrange department ofthe Dover politics Mr. Hayesis an
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. terof Eastern New Hampshire Pomona Grange, and at thepresent time is serving his second term as member ofthe State Board of Agriculture for Strafford a number of years he served as chairman of the General Fruit Com-mittee of the Ameri-can Pomological Soci-ety and is at present adirector, and chairmanof the Committee onNomenclature of theNew Hampshire Hor-ticultural Society. Hehas been a frequentcontributor to the agri-cultural press, and nowconducts the Farm andGrange department ofthe Dover politics Mr. Hayesis an active Republi-can. He has frequent-ly been honored officially by his fellow-citizens, havingserved as ward clerk, selectman, moderator, schoolcommittee, and representative, and is at present asses-sor-at-large and clerk of the Board of Assessors of thecity of Dover. For many years Mr. Hayes has beenconnected with the fairs at Rochester and Tilton, inthe secretarys office, and has acted as judge either inthe fruit or vegetable department almost James M. Hayes. 90 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. Mr. Hayes makes a specialty of market gardeningand small fruits, and does quite a business raising vege-table plants under glass for the market. Of small fruitshe raises mostly strawberries, selling plants quite largelyin his vicinity. He believes that if farmers around ourlarge towns would do more of such work, instead ofdevoting their time to the regular field crops, there wouldbe less complaint from them of hard times. JOSEPH DREW HOWE, Lancaster. On one of the hills that adds so much to the beauty ofLancaster, are some of the best cultivated farms in thetown, and on one of these farms resides Joseph D. Howe,Esq., highly esteemed for his intelligence, integrity, anddevotion to the best interests of his native town. Hisfarm is known as Maple Hill farm, and there he wasborn September 17, 184I0 Some of his ancestors wereextensive land owners in Marlborough, Mass., and fromthat town
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