The farm-yard club of Jotham: . wivel Plough 480 Telegraph Plough 480 Eagle Plough 481 Harrow 483 Horse-Hoe . 484 Seed-sower 484 Expanding Cultivator 485 Woods Eagle Mower W. J. Dana 487 Horse Hay-Rake 489 Root-cutter 49° corn-sheller 49° Cotswold Ram E. Forbes VV. J. Dana 506 ILLUSTRA TIONS. XV CoTSWOLD Ewe E. Forbes Southdown Ram Southdown Ewe Merino Ram Merino Ewe Chester County Swine Suffolk Swine Group of Asiatic Fowls Group of French and English Fowls American Trotting Horse hnckaver. Page Dana 506 508508510510528529Russell &^ Richardson 535 539W. y. Dana 557 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF J
The farm-yard club of Jotham: . wivel Plough 480 Telegraph Plough 480 Eagle Plough 481 Harrow 483 Horse-Hoe . 484 Seed-sower 484 Expanding Cultivator 485 Woods Eagle Mower W. J. Dana 487 Horse Hay-Rake 489 Root-cutter 49° corn-sheller 49° Cotswold Ram E. Forbes VV. J. Dana 506 ILLUSTRA TIONS. XV CoTSWOLD Ewe E. Forbes Southdown Ram Southdown Ewe Merino Ram Merino Ewe Chester County Swine Suffolk Swine Group of Asiatic Fowls Group of French and English Fowls American Trotting Horse hnckaver. Page Dana 506 508508510510528529Russell &^ Richardson 535 539W. y. Dana 557 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF JOTHAM. INTRODUCTORY. THE TOWN OF HOPKINS FAMILY. —THE OLD FARMAND THE NEW BARN. JOTHAM, as it is often called, is one of the oldest townsin New England. It was settled by a few Puritanicallyinclined families from the old country, who came hereabout the middle of the seventeenth century, on the invita-tion of those who had been interested in the settlementof Boston, and had discovered the location of the best. THE VILLAGE OK JOTHAM. farming lands in Eastern Jotham is afertile township, charmingly situated upon the swellinghills which surround a large and picturesque pond, largeenough to be called a lake but for the modesty of the peo- 2 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF J07HAM. pie whose homes and farms occupy its shores. The vil-lage has hidden itself in one of the valleys between thehills, through which runs the meandering outlet of thelake ; and here stand even now the old meeting-house,whose worshippers have never wandered away from thefaith of the fathers; and the post-office, with a few letterswaiting in the window to be called for ; and the stage-tavern, with its piazza, once alive with travellers and driv-ers ; and the store, whose well-worn floor and creakingcounters could tell many a tale of sharp trade and hotdebate ; and the imposing dwelling of the prosperous phy-sician, whose father and grandfather and great-grandfatherwere held as high authorit
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