. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. d, by per-sistent effort, backed by good judgment in directing thesame, he is now entirely out of debt, with a fine farm ingood condition, the house having been thoroughly re-modelled, pure running water supplied for house andbarn, and various other improvements. Fruit, poultry, and the dairy are leading features inMr. Hodgmans farmoperations, small truitsreceiving special atten-tion. He has marketedseveral hundred dol-lars worth of straw-berries and raspberriesper annum, and had atone time three hundredpeach trees. A fineplum orchard h
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. d, by per-sistent effort, backed by good judgment in directing thesame, he is now entirely out of debt, with a fine farm ingood condition, the house having been thoroughly re-modelled, pure running water supplied for house andbarn, and various other improvements. Fruit, poultry, and the dairy are leading features inMr. Hodgmans farmoperations, small truitsreceiving special atten-tion. He has marketedseveral hundred dol-lars worth of straw-berries and raspberriesper annum, and had atone time three hundredpeach trees. A fineplum orchard has justcome into Rock fowlsare kept exclusively aspoultry, about 600 hensand chickens havingbeen cared for the pastseason. With excel-lent care a good profit is realized. From twelve to six-teen head of cattle are kept, the cream from the dairygoing to the Ashby, Mass., creamery. In politics Mr. Hodgman is a Republican, and hasbeen honored by his party in various ways, having servedas town and school auditor, as selectman, and as chair-. Marcellus K. Hod(;man. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 189 man of the board of supervisors tor the hist ten or twelveyears. He has also taken a strong interest in schoolmatters, acting as prudential committee under the oldsystem and as a member of the town school board sub-sequently. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgman have two children—a daughter,Etta E., the wife of George E. Livingston of Greenvilleand the mother of two tine boys, and a son, Mervin E.,who married Lilla E. Hall of Brooklyn, N. Y., in Jan-uary, 1896, and is associated in business with his are active members of Fruitdale Grange, No. 106, ofMason, in which Mr. Hodgman has served as overseer,and contributes materiallv to the exercises and discussions. THOMAS O. TAYLOR, Sanbornton. The old Taylor homestead in Sanbornton, whereonfive generations of the name have dwelt,—descending /i>»e^ 19 « * lut^ ^bR mBH| __i. r mjbI R^k. ^^^^^*^mH^^^HPKQ MBjH ??I^HB^^^^SH ^^H^^
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