. Bulletin . !l PI if^JM«iB8 14 i» ■Sit!. THE EXTENT AND DIVISION OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY IN NEW. HAMPSHIRE. BY IVAN COMINGS WELD. THE earliest information we have regarding dairying inNew Hampshire is found in a letter written August 6t1634. In this letter, Mr. Ambrose Gibbons, manager of Masons plantation, which was located near the presentCity of Portsmouth, writes to his employer in part as fol-lows: you have here at the great house 9 Cowes, 1 Bull, 4calves of the last year and 9 of this yeare, the prove verywell, farre better than ever was expected. They are as goodas your ordinar
. Bulletin . !l PI if^JM«iB8 14 i» ■Sit!. THE EXTENT AND DIVISION OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY IN NEW. HAMPSHIRE. BY IVAN COMINGS WELD. THE earliest information we have regarding dairying inNew Hampshire is found in a letter written August 6t1634. In this letter, Mr. Ambrose Gibbons, manager of Masons plantation, which was located near the presentCity of Portsmouth, writes to his employer in part as fol-lows: you have here at the great house 9 Cowes, 1 Bull, 4calves of the last year and 9 of this yeare, the prove verywell, farre better than ever was expected. They are as goodas your ordinary Cattle in England and they goates provesome of them very well, both for milke and breed, if youdid send ashippe for the Western Hands of 6 scoore tunneor thereabouts for cowes & goates it would be profitable foryou. A good husband with his wife to tend the Cattle &to make butter and cheese will be profitable, for maidesthey are soone goune in this countrie 1 l Newitchawanock, the 6th of August 1634 According to an ancient authobulletin120newh
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