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Title: New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Metcalf, Henry Harrison, 1841-1932
Subjects: Farmers Farms
Publisher: Concord, N.H. : Republican Press Association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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th the necessary outbuildings. Mr. Sanborn also ownsother land, some in the immediate vicinity and some at a distance—the latter in-cluding a farm in Gil-ford—to the amount ofabout 500 acres alto-gether. Mr. Sanborn is a na-tive of Moultonborough—a son of William H.and Sally Dame San-born, born January 13,1843. He removed withhis parents to Gilfordin childhood, and wasearly inured to farmlabor in its most exact-ing forms. He cameJacoi; Saxhorn. , ^ • 1 1 to the Smith place at the age of about eighteen years, and took charge of thefarm work for Miss Polly Smith, continuing in her ser-vice until her death some fifteen years later, and so laith-fully and satisfactorily performing his duty that the farmitself was left him by Miss Smith at her decease. From boyhood, Mr. Sanborn has been an ardent loverof good cattle, especially delighting in the rearing andtraining of steers, and he has made the same a specialtythe greater portion of his life. His ox teams have been ^ r^^ i^^V 1 m^
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28o NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. among the finest in the county, both in appearance andefficiency, and under his direction have accomplished avast amount of work, the same being extensively soughtfor wherever powerful service in that line was required.He has raised cattle to sell, both for beef and workingoxen, in great numbers, breeding many himself and buy-ing others when young. Probably no man in the state isa better judge of the good points of young stock thanMr. Sanborn, and he has seldom made a mistake in theselection of an animal. He lias raised different breeds,at one time being largely devoted to the Durham, but oflate his cattle have largely been Hereford grades. Hehas now (1897) twenty-six oxen and steers, and alsokeeps five horses and a few cows, but has never engagedto any extent in dairying. He mows some fortv acres ofland, and has about ten acres under the plow. As showingthe strength of the soil and the measure of fertilizationemployed, it may be noted that from a field

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