. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. e John W. and Nettie still at home. PINE GROVE FARM, HAVERHILL,Henry W. Keyes, Proprietor. Amonor the best known stock farms in New Hampshirefor many years past, Pine Grove Farm, at NorthHaverhill, has held a conspicuous position. This farm,originally owned by Moses Dow, a distinguished citizenand one of the first lawyers in Grafton county, who set-tled here before the Revolution, and held various impor-tant offices, but modestly declined an election to congress,because he felt incompetent for the position, was pur-chased more tha
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. e John W. and Nettie still at home. PINE GROVE FARM, HAVERHILL,Henry W. Keyes, Proprietor. Amonor the best known stock farms in New Hampshirefor many years past, Pine Grove Farm, at NorthHaverhill, has held a conspicuous position. This farm,originally owned by Moses Dow, a distinguished citizenand one of the first lawyers in Grafton county, who set-tled here before the Revolution, and held various impor-tant offices, but modestly declined an election to congress,because he felt incompetent for the position, was pur-chased more than thirty years ago by the late HenryKeyes of Newbury, Vt., president of the Connecticut &Passumpsic Rivers railroad, who carried out extensiveimprovements, and engaged in stock-raising, breedingfine-blooded Durham cattle and Merino sheep on a largescale. Mr. Keyes died in 1870, leaving a wife—formerlyMiss Emma F. Pierce—and five children, three sons andtwo daughters. The eldest of the sons—Henry —who was born in Newbury, May 23, 1863,. IC) 242 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. though still pursuing his studies, assumed the manage-ment of the farm when eighteen years of age, and it hassince been in his hands, and its reputation as a superiorstock farm maintained and largely extended. The farm contains about 1,200 acres of land in all,of which about two hundred and twenty-five acres aremowing and tillage, including a magnificent tract ofConnecticut river intervale, with a large amount ofhigher meadow and plain land. About two hundredand fifty tons of hay are cut annually, while from fifteento twenty acres of corn are ensilaged. In the season of1896, ninety acres of land were under the plow, fiftyacres in oats, and forty in corn, the latter being halfensilage and half field corn. All the crops produced arefed on the farm, to the splendid stock of Holstein andJersey cattle, fine-blooded trotting and French coachhorses, Shropshire sheep, and Yorkshire swine, all ofwhich have
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