. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. atter have all been put in goodcondition, and the land brought into an excellent state ofcultivation. The farm embraces 250 acres of moist clay loam. Itis situated on a highelevation about a mileand a half west ofWashington Center,and bordering on Mil-len Lake, one of themost beautiful sheetsof water to be foundin New Hampshire,being finely locatedfor summer is now known as Oak Hill and sheep arethe principal stock,and thoroughbred an-imals are sought ineach line. Butter, lambs, poultry, and maple sugarare the prod
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. atter have all been put in goodcondition, and the land brought into an excellent state ofcultivation. The farm embraces 250 acres of moist clay loam. Itis situated on a highelevation about a mileand a half west ofWashington Center,and bordering on Mil-len Lake, one of themost beautiful sheetsof water to be foundin New Hampshire,being finely locatedfor summer is now known as Oak Hill and sheep arethe principal stock,and thoroughbred an-imals are sought ineach line. Butter, lambs, poultry, and maple sugarare the products mainly relied upon for revenue. Mr. Ball was united in marriage, November 26, 1884,with Miss Carrie B. Brooks of Antrim. They have twochildren—^John S., born August 30, 1886, and Nina M.,February 27, 1889. In religion he is a Bapdst, and inpolitics a Republican. He has served his town fouryears as a selectman, and ten years successively as amember of the school-board, being secretary and treas-urer of the same most of the time. He is at present a. Sumner N. Ball. 394 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. town auditor, and also a member of the board of trusteesof Tubbs Union academy. In 1896 he was the candi-date of his party for representative in the legislature,and lacked only five votes of election in a decidedlyDemocratic town. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.,and has passed the chairs in his lodge. He is also anactive member of Lovell Grange, No. 5, P. of H., inwhich organization he has taken a deep interest, andserved as master from 1893 to 1897, during which timethe membership was doubled. He was master of Sulli-van County Pomona Grange in 1895, and is at present aState Grange deputy for District No. 17. Mrs. Ball isalso active and earnest in Grange work, and is thepresent worthy Pomona of the State Grange. OILMAN GREENOUGH, Atkinson. There is no man in the section of the state contiguousto the Boston & Maine railroad between the town ofExeter and the city of Haverhill, Mass
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