. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. to secure a fair education, and improved thesame in attendance at the district school, and at the fa-mous academy of the adjacent town of South Berwick,Me. He also developed a fondness for teaching andpursued the same for a dozen winters, commencing atthe age of sixteen, seven winters being spent in the dis-trict wherein resided the late Chief-Justice Doe, for whosefather, Joseph Doe, a warm personal friend of his ownfather, he had been PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 343 In 1870, having attained his majority, he bought thefine farm
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. to secure a fair education, and improved thesame in attendance at the district school, and at the fa-mous academy of the adjacent town of South Berwick,Me. He also developed a fondness for teaching andpursued the same for a dozen winters, commencing atthe age of sixteen, seven winters being spent in the dis-trict wherein resided the late Chief-Justice Doe, for whosefather, Joseph Doe, a warm personal friend of his ownfather, he had been PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 343 In 1870, having attained his majority, he bought thefine farm of 120 acres, which is now his home, locatedon the old Dover and Portland turnpike, about half amile trom his birthplace, and devoted himself to its culti-vation and improvement, although making his home withhis parents, until his marriage, July 31, 1873, with MissAddie E. Littlefield of Wells, Me., when he establisheda home for himself on the farm, where he has sinceresided. Dairying, or milk production, fruit raising,and market gardening have been Mr. Robertss special-ties. The latter was pursued quite extensively for anumber of years, but of late has been followed only inci-dentally, to the extent of supplying vegetables lor hismilk customers. Of fruit he raises a large amount of allkinds, including sixty or seventy varieties of apples andnearly as many of pears. In the prolific and unprofit-able season of 1896, he harvested 4,650 bushels of hand-picked apples, from his own farm and the ol
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