. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ld the position until his death in 1890, gavegreat aid in various directions, and his memory has ap-propriately been perpetuated by giving the name ofNesmith Hall to the new Experiment Station building atDurham. Ex-Gov. Frederick Smyth, who was thetreasurer of the college from the start, and who, havingsigned the act of incorporation as governor, naturallytook a strong interest in its welfare and progress, neverfailed the institution in any time of need, while healthand strength remained. The death of ex-Gov. Benjamin removed
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ld the position until his death in 1890, gavegreat aid in various directions, and his memory has ap-propriately been perpetuated by giving the name ofNesmith Hall to the new Experiment Station building atDurham. Ex-Gov. Frederick Smyth, who was thetreasurer of the college from the start, and who, havingsigned the act of incorporation as governor, naturallytook a strong interest in its welfare and progress, neverfailed the institution in any time of need, while healthand strength remained. The death of ex-Gov. Benjamin removed from the board of trustees another towerof strength, whose clear insight, fearless spirit, and persist-ent fidelity gave inestimable value to his connection withthe college. After the death of Judge Nesmith, D. Stevens of Concord was chosen president ofthe college, and served in that capacity with great effi-ciency and earnest devotion for three years, until July,1893, when he was succeeded by the present incumbent,Charles S. Murkland, Ph. GRANITE STATE DAIRYMENS ASSOCI-ATION. While some excellent butter and cheese was made inthe state of New Hampshire twenty-hve or fifty yearsago, the great bulk of those products sent out ofthe state was of very ordinary quality, and the term New Hampshire butter, was never thought of by any-body as embodying anything in the shape of a guarantyof excellence. So far as New England was concerned,Vermont was looked to for really first-class butter, andsuch continued to be the case, in fact, until within thelast six years or less. Indeed, it was not until theunbiased judgment and authoritative decision of the expertjudges at the great Columbian exposition, or Worlds fair,in Chicago in 1893, gave New Hampshire the post ofhonor by giving her butter exhibits the highest averagerecord attained by any state or any country, and the factwas published to the world, that any one came to under-stand or believe that New Hampshire butter was sp
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