. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ruit-trees. Aside from his farm work, Mr. Wadleigh has beenfor several years past extensively engaged in is also the principal owner and moving spirit in theSutton creamery, and the leading promoter and treasurerof the Merrimack County Telephone company, whichhas established a line from Bradford to North Sutton andaround the lake. In politics, Mr. Wadleigh is a Republican, and inreligion, a Baptist. He has served two years on theboard of selectmen. He is a member of the Sons ofTemperance, is unmarried, and at the present ti
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ruit-trees. Aside from his farm work, Mr. Wadleigh has beenfor several years past extensively engaged in is also the principal owner and moving spirit in theSutton creamery, and the leading promoter and treasurerof the Merrimack County Telephone company, whichhas established a line from Bradford to North Sutton andaround the lake. In politics, Mr. Wadleigh is a Republican, and inreligion, a Baptist. He has served two years on theboard of selectmen. He is a member of the Sons ofTemperance, is unmarried, and at the present time theonly representative of the Wadleigh tamily in town. SIDNEY B. WHITTEMORE, COLEEROOK. One of the most active, energetic, and well-knownmen in agricultural circles, as well as in public andpolitical life in northern New Hampshire, is Sidney , of Colebrook, son of Benjamin and Almira(Chandler) Whittemore, born near the farm where henow resides, July 21, 1839. ^^ ^^^^ educated in the com-mon school and at Colebrook academy, and has devoted. Sidney B. Whittemore. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 269 himself actively to agricultural pursuits upon this farm,to which the family removed when he was fourteen yearsof age, which was bequeathed him by his father, andwhich embraces about 250 acres of land, of which 75acres is wood land and the balance pasture and tillage. There is no better farming town in New Hampshirethan Colebrook, and this tarm is in the rich, rolling,upland region some four miles east of Colebrook village,and produces abundant crops, including on an average75 tons of hay, 300 bushels of oats, 1,200 bushels ofpotatoes, and 100 bushels of buckwheat per annum. was one of the first to introduce pure bredShort Horn Durham cattle into his section of the state,and was for many years successfully engaged in breedingthem. Later he turned his attention to butter making, butfor the last tew years he has sold milk in the village ofColebrook. He keeps abou
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