. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. Augustine R. Avers. 114 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. farm industry he changed to dairying. His attentionhaving been directed to the Holstein-Freisian as a desir-able dairy animal, he secured, through ex-GovernorGoodell and others, a tew good registered animals of thisbreed, from the Russell importation, and has steadilyincreased and improved his herd, which now numbersabout thirty-five head altogether, including some excel-lent representatives of the best strains. He milks abouteighteen cows, giving them good ordinary care and. Residence
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. Augustine R. Avers. 114 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. farm industry he changed to dairying. His attentionhaving been directed to the Holstein-Freisian as a desir-able dairy animal, he secured, through ex-GovernorGoodell and others, a tew good registered animals of thisbreed, from the Russell importation, and has steadilyincreased and improved his herd, which now numbersabout thirty-five head altogether, including some excel-lent representatives of the best strains. He milks abouteighteen cows, giving them good ordinary care and. Residence of A. R. Ayers, North Boscawen. making no effort for extra records, but securing verysatisfactory results. He wholesales his milk at presentto dealers for the Concord market, in pi-eference to sellingat the cars, now so generally done in this section. The farm, which embraces two hundred and seventy-five acres, is finely located on the Boston & Maine rail-road. Concord division, running back from the Merri-mack river a mile and a half upon the hills. There areabout seventy-five acres of river land of ready access PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. II5 and easy tillage, the balance being pasture and woodland. When Mr. Ayers took possession the farm hadbeen much neglected, but has been greatly improvedalready, some forty acres having been brought into firstclass condition. He had eleven acres in corn in 1896,and several acres in oats and potatoes, having raisedfrom three hundred to twelve hundred bushels of thelatter each year. He has already built a 100-foot barnwith cellar unde
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