. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. early adjacent. Mr. Pulsifer attended the district school and PlymouthAcademy, but his principal education has been gainedin the school of practical agriculture, wherein he rankswith the most success-ful New Hampshirefarmers, having adopt-ed improvement ashis motto, and pro-ceeding upon the ba-sis that farming, evenin New Hampshire,can be made to pursues mixedfarming, with dairy-ing as a leading fea-ture. His mowing andtillage embraces someseventy-five acres, andhis stock includesabout thirty head ofcattle, of which sixteen or se
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. early adjacent. Mr. Pulsifer attended the district school and PlymouthAcademy, but his principal education has been gainedin the school of practical agriculture, wherein he rankswith the most success-ful New Hampshirefarmers, having adopt-ed improvement ashis motto, and pro-ceeding upon the ba-sis that farming, evenin New Hampshire,can be made to pursues mixedfarming, with dairy-ing as a leading fea-ture. His mowing andtillage embraces someseventy-five acres, andhis stock includesabout thirty head ofcattle, of which sixteen or seventeen are cows, selectedfor their milking qualities, four horses, and a small flockof sheep, of which in former years he kept a largernumber. He raises 300 or 400 bushels of corn annu-ally, and until within a few years past, raised a consid-erable amount of wheat, for the production of whichhis land is admirably adapted, thirty bushels to the acrefrequently being secured. Indeed, until 1894 he hadnever bought a barrel of flour for family use. For many. Thomas S. Pulsifer. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 317 years he produced a prime article of butter as well ascheese, but of late, except during three months in sum-mer, when he still makes cheese, to the number of sev-enty-five or one hundred, his milk has been delivered atthe creamery in Plymouth. Mr. Pulsifer is an earnest Patron of Husbandry ; wasa charter member of Campton Grange, organized inApril, 1878, and its second master, holding the officeeight years, altogether. He was a charter member andhas been an officer of Grafton County Pomona Grange,was four years a District Deputy of the State Grange,and has been a director of the Grange Mutual Fire In-surance Company from the start, and its treasurer sincethe second year. In religion he is a Congregationalist;politically, a Republican. He has been prominent in townaffairs, serving as treasurer, member of the school board,chairman of the board of selectmen, and representativein
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