. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ectured in most of the towns in New Hamp-shire, and at Dairymans associations in Vermont andother states, delivering over five hundred lectures onpractical agriculture. He represented the experimentstation at the national meetings, twice at Washington,once at Nashville, and once at New Orleans. Professor Whitcher was the first to point out and dem-onstrate the need of more potash in fertilizers for NewEngland, and the for-mulas first preparedand tested by himself,both at the home farmin Strafford, and onthe college farm atHanover, are u
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ectured in most of the towns in New Hamp-shire, and at Dairymans associations in Vermont andother states, delivering over five hundred lectures onpractical agriculture. He represented the experimentstation at the national meetings, twice at Washington,once at Nashville, and once at New Orleans. Professor Whitcher was the first to point out and dem-onstrate the need of more potash in fertilizers for NewEngland, and the for-mulas first preparedand tested by himself,both at the home farmin Strafford, and onthe college farm atHanover, are used byhundreds of the bestknown farmers in NewHampshire, Massa-chusetts, and bulletins from hispen, issued by the ex-periment station, havebeen recognized asauthoritative not onlyin the United States,but in England, Aus-tria, and Australia, and some of them were reissued, withcredit, by the experiment stations of other states, becauseof their scientific and practical value. In politics, is a Democrat, who never deserts his party or. Pkoi. CiKoiUii-: H. Whitcher. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 383 principles. Circumstances have always been unfavor-able for political preferment, as he has lived in stronglyRepublican towns, but in 1890, as a candidate for thelegislature in Hanover, he cut the normal Republicanmajority of one hundred down to less than thirty. Sincehe has lived in Durham he has been almost unanimouslyelected as member of the board of education, and in 1896was chosen treasurer, against a Republican majority ofeighty. In the fall of 1896 he ran for the legislatureunder the most unfavorable circumstances, owing to thestampede of Eastern Democrats in the Br3an campaign,and while the normal Republican majority in the townwas about one hundred and twenty-live, he was beatenby only twenty-seven votes. In the spring of 1897, hewas elected second member of the board of selectmen inDurham, by a large majority. Since the removal of the college to Durham, he
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