. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. 5acres; but with the addition of other farms and adjacentland purchased, it now embraces about 400 acres, whileoutlying pasture and woodland in Antrim and Hancockbrings the total up to 600. Governor Goodell, who has continued his residenceon the farm, has madestock raising his prin-cipal line of farm busi-ness, excellence beingthe object aimed a time he madea specialty of Durhamstock, and establisheda fine reputation forthe same in breedingand in butter making ;but some ten or twelveyears ago his attentionwas called to the Hol-st
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. 5acres; but with the addition of other farms and adjacentland purchased, it now embraces about 400 acres, whileoutlying pasture and woodland in Antrim and Hancockbrings the total up to 600. Governor Goodell, who has continued his residenceon the farm, has madestock raising his prin-cipal line of farm busi-ness, excellence beingthe object aimed a time he madea specialty of Durhamstock, and establisheda fine reputation forthe same in breedingand in butter making ;but some ten or twelveyears ago his attentionwas called to the Hol-steins, when he pur-chased a fine bloodedbull and a heifer ofthat breed, and soon after added five more choice two-year-old heifers, freshfrom Holland, selected for him by Dudley Miller, andhas since been building up a herd of which he has everyreason to be proud, and which is indeed a credit to thestate. He has generally about seventy-five head, ofwhich from twenty to twenty-five are milch cows, whoseproduct goes to market in the shape of cream, the milk. Richard C. Goodell. 112 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. being retained upon the farm and fed to the specialty of this iierd is cows of great butter capac-ity. Its reputation is widely extended, and many choiceanimals of both sexes sold therefrom in the past fewyears have contributed largely to the improvement ofother herds, both in the immediate neighborhood andat a distance. Governor Goodell was one of the early champions ofthe silo in New Hampshire, and among the first to adoptits use. He has two substantially constructed silos witha joint capacity of about 350 tons. Into these he packsthe product of about thirteen acres of ensilage corn eachseason, and this, with the ninety tons of hay cut on thefarm, furnishes ample food for his stock. Since hisadoption of the ensilage system the feeding capacity ofthe farm has nearly trebled. He has long been anactive member of the New England Agricultural Society,serving upon the bo
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