. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. protit accrues to himin the process. Mr. Fox has about400 acres of land inall, largely pasture andwoodland, some fortyacres only being this, he keeps aboutten acres under theplow, his object beingthe production of first-class crops of hay, supplementingthe same with ensilage, a silo having been recently putin. He keeps a mixed stock, including eight or tencows, some young cattle, three horses, and a flock of60 or 70 sheep. He was a charter member of ExcelsiorGrange of Marlow, of which organization he is thepresent master, and
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. protit accrues to himin the process. Mr. Fox has about400 acres of land inall, largely pasture andwoodland, some fortyacres only being this, he keeps aboutten acres under theplow, his object beingthe production of first-class crops of hay, supplementingthe same with ensilage, a silo having been recently putin. He keeps a mixed stock, including eight or tencows, some young cattle, three horses, and a flock of60 or 70 sheep. He was a charter member of ExcelsiorGrange of Marlow, of which organization he is thepresent master, and is also master of Cheshire CountyPomona Grange, to which position he was elected inDecember, Perley E. Fox. 308 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. He has taken an active interest in the work of theorder, and is a ready and effective speaker in the variousgatherings under its auspices in his section of the Fox, formerly Miss Catharine Fiske, daughter ofthe late Hon. Amos F. Fiske of Marlow, to whom hewas married November ii, i860, is also an earnest andefficient Grange worker, and has served as lecturer ofthe Pomona and subordinate Granges. They have nochildren living, a son, Charles H., having died in infancy. Mr. Fox is an Odd Fellow, and has passed the chairsin that organization. Politically, he is a Republican, but,residing in a Democratic town, has not been called intothe public service as generally as might otherwise havebeen the case. He has served on the school-boardmany years, however, and was for three successive terms,or six years, a member of the board of county commis-sioners. In religion, he is a Methodist, and has been for29 consecutive years superintendent o
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