. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. t, who remain with Mr. Howe upon the farm. WILLIAM H. PERRY, Newport. William H. Perry, son of Daniel and Fanny (Fiske)Perry, is one of the successful and prosperous farmersof the fine agricultural town of Newport. He was bornOctober 12, 1840, on the farm where he now resides,and was educated in the district school and the acade-mies at Newport and Claremont. He served in Co. K,Ninth N. H. V., in the late war, and was wounded inbattle. Returning, he settled on the old homestead, nowknown as Maple Wood farm, on the Green Mount-ain road,
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. t, who remain with Mr. Howe upon the farm. WILLIAM H. PERRY, Newport. William H. Perry, son of Daniel and Fanny (Fiske)Perry, is one of the successful and prosperous farmersof the fine agricultural town of Newport. He was bornOctober 12, 1840, on the farm where he now resides,and was educated in the district school and the acade-mies at Newport and Claremont. He served in Co. K,Ninth N. H. V., in the late war, and was wounded inbattle. Returning, he settled on the old homestead, nowknown as Maple Wood farm, on the Green Mount-ain road, about midway between the villages of New-port and Claremont, where he has since devoted himselfindustriously to agriculture. The farm is an originallOO-acre lot, of which about forty acres is in the first fifteen years Mr. Perry was engagedlargely in the rearing and breaking of steers, for whichthere was a ready market at remunerative prices. During the last fifteen years dairying has been hisspecialty, with hogs as an accompaniment. He has a. o HCO Qoi PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 95 tine fruit orchard, also raises corn quite extensively,which he regards as a good paying crop. He keeps adozen cows and sells all his butter to one firm in New-port, and sells, also, from a ton to a ton and a half ofpork per annum. A large maple sugar product is mar-keted, mostly at the West. He believes in farm machin-ery, keeps abreast with the times, and has an eye outfor all improvements ; but takes little stock in commer-cial fertilizers, preferring to produce his own. He hasa fine set of buildings, and his land is in an excellentstate of cultivation, producing annually 40 tons of hay,500 bushels of corn, and other crops. He received adiploma and medal for corn and beans exhibited at theWorlds Fair in Chicago. Mr. Perry has been promi-nent in town affairs, serving as selectman, school com-mittee, and representative. He is also conspicuous inMasonic and G. A. R. circles, and was a re
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