. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. oubts which mayhave originally existed. In 1895, Mr. Noyes purchasedfour thoroughbred cows and heifers, and now has a herdof forty thoroughbreds and grades, headed by RosasRydale, the fourth bull used, and royally bred. Themature cows producean average of 300pounds of butter eachper annum, and theherd of twenty-fivecows and heifers <ri\espromise of a net an-nual product of 6,000pounds. The skimmed milkis fed to calves andChester-White pigs,the latter being fat-tened in the fall andthe available portionsused for sausage, ofwhich he ma
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. oubts which mayhave originally existed. In 1895, Mr. Noyes purchasedfour thoroughbred cows and heifers, and now has a herdof forty thoroughbreds and grades, headed by RosasRydale, the fourth bull used, and royally bred. Themature cows producean average of 300pounds of butter eachper annum, and theherd of twenty-fivecows and heifers <ri\espromise of a net an-nual product of 6,000pounds. The skimmed milkis fed to calves andChester-White pigs,the latter being fat-tened in the fall andthe available portionsused for sausage, ofwhich he makes someeight hundred pounds annually, selling above the market price. The but-ter and cheese made from this herd are of a superiorquality. The butter shown at the dairy exhibit in con-nection with the winter meeting of the State Dairymansassociation at Lancaster in December, 1895, scoredninety-seven and three-fourths points, and won the firstpremium. A few colts are raised on the farm, about twelve horses,old and young, being kept for use and for Samukl T. Noves. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 251 Hill Top Farm has, in the past fifteen years, beenimproved until at present it produces annually from 80to 100 tons of hay, 1,500 l)usliels of potatoes, 800 bushelsof grain, 75 to 100 tons of ensilage, 300 gallons of maplesyrup, and a good amount of fruit, while its pasturage isunexcelled. Mr. Noyes, to be appreciated, must be known in homeand social life. Much of his success is due to his exxel-lent wife. Ibrmerl}- Miss Anna Donnelly, who is a modelhomemaker. Mr. and Mrs. Noyes are genial as hostand hostess, always pleased to entertain not only theirintimate friends, but also a large circle of have but one child, Alice, the wife of Rev. I. , of the M. E. church, a vounger daughter, HattieEllen, having died from tl^e dread scourge diphtheria, atthe age of eleven years. Thev delight especially in thevisits of their three grandchildren, Lena Mae, Glad^•s
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