. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. John Albert 230 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. have one child, a daughter, Lura M. Peaslee, now 22years of age, who remains at home. The Peaslee tarm, which originally contained about175 acres, and to which additions, increasing the acre-age to over 300, have been made, has always been notedfor superior stock, especiall} neat cattle, its oxen beingparticularly fine. Grade Holstein and Ayrshires are nowmainly kept, the cows, whose milk is sold at the cars,numbering about forty the past season. Sometimes asmany as eighty head of cat
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. John Albert 230 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. have one child, a daughter, Lura M. Peaslee, now 22years of age, who remains at home. The Peaslee tarm, which originally contained about175 acres, and to which additions, increasing the acre-age to over 300, have been made, has always been notedfor superior stock, especiall} neat cattle, its oxen beingparticularly fine. Grade Holstein and Ayrshires are nowmainly kept, the cows, whose milk is sold at the cars,numbering about forty the past season. Sometimes asmany as eighty head of cattle, altogether, have been win-tered, and from three to five horses are also kept. Abouteighty-five acres of land is in grass, and from_ five to sixhundred bushels of corn on the ears produced in anaverage season. The farm has also a good variety offruit. The grounds occupied by the Fair Associationare a part of the Peaslee farm, and the free use of thesame, on which there is a good half-mile track, has beengiven by Mr. Peaslee to the society since its organiza-tion in 1875,
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