. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ^ and entered Dart-mouth with his brother George W., two years older,graduating from that institution in 1878, before complet-ing his nineteenth year, being one of the youngest menever graduated from that college. After graduation he returned home, and while hisbrother engaged in the study and practice of law, hedevoted himself to the older and no less honorable avo-cation of agriculture, which he has since successfullypursued on the old maternal homestead, v\hich, originallycontaining about two hundred acres, has been enlargedfrom time
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ^ and entered Dart-mouth with his brother George W., two years older,graduating from that institution in 1878, before complet-ing his nineteenth year, being one of the youngest menever graduated from that college. After graduation he returned home, and while hisbrother engaged in the study and practice of law, hedevoted himself to the older and no less honorable avo-cation of agriculture, which he has since successfullypursued on the old maternal homestead, v\hich, originallycontaining about two hundred acres, has been enlargedfrom time to time until it now embraces about eiffhthundred acres, mostly contiguous. The soil is strong. Charles W. Stone. 304 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. and productive, four tons of hay per acre, at two cut-tings, being secured in a season from the best cultivatedfields. The annual hay crop averages about eightytons, while a large amount of corn is ensilaged in the foursilos now on the place, which have a total capacity ofabout two hundred and fifty tons. An abundant supply offruit, from grafted and standard trees, is also secured infavorable seasons. Dair3nng is Mr. Stones specialty, the product of somethirty cows being marketed in the form of cream, whichis raised by the Cooley process, the milk being retainedon the farm for feeding purposes. His entire stock thepast winter consisted of sixteen horses and forty-eighthead of cattle, including the cows. These are largelyJerseys and include some pure-blooded, and fine-gradeanimals. No little pains have been taken for improvementin this direction, a fine blooded bull from the noted C. herd, having been recently in use. There are tw
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