. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. tinuously, nearly every evening of eachweek he was thus employed in Croydon and adjoiningtowns ; besides leading choirs in Newport for twenty-five years, helping to start the Sullivan County Musi-cal Association, and conducting the singing mostacceptably at several hundred funerals, down to thepresent time. His farming operations commenced in Calitbrnia in i852-53, where heharvested one hun-dred acres of barley,and afterwards, being,with his partner, ac-customed to the useof tools, they workedfor several weeks on awharf and bridge atSto
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. tinuously, nearly every evening of eachweek he was thus employed in Croydon and adjoiningtowns ; besides leading choirs in Newport for twenty-five years, helping to start the Sullivan County Musi-cal Association, and conducting the singing mostacceptably at several hundred funerals, down to thepresent time. His farming operations commenced in Calitbrnia in i852-53, where heharvested one hun-dred acres of barley,and afterwards, being,with his partner, ac-customed to the useof tools, they workedfor several weeks on awharf and bridge atStockton for eight dol-lars per day returning to NewHampshire, he addedan adjoining farm tothe old homestead ofhis father-in-law, Na-th a n i e 1 Humphrey,thus securing one ofthe largest sugar orchards in the town ot Croydon. Itcontains some 1,500 trees, in the management of which hekeeps abreast of the times in all improvements for sugar-ing, and has found his net profits averaging $250 a year,—some years as high as $500. He uses, and for thirty. Erasmus D. Comings.
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