Excerpt from New Hampshire Agriculture: Personal and Farm Sketches It is the purpose of this volume to supply, in some small measure, What is wanting in this regard, so far as the state of New Hampshire is concerned; to increase the interest in agriculture in the state and record the suc cess which has crowned the efi'brts of representative New Hampshire farmers. If in so doing the writer shall succeed in advancing in any degree the welfare of this great industry, which remains and must continue the basis of our national prosperity, and which, even in New Hampshire, excels every other in magnitude and importance, he will have accomplished all that he hoped for, or had any right to expect. That he may do this by exciting a deeper pride in, and stronger devotion to, their noble calling in the minds of New Hampshire farmers and their sons, he sincerely trusts; while earnestly reminding the latter that upon the continued and improved cultivation of these New Hampshire farms, upon which have been reared so many of the men who have directed the thought and energy of the nation in times past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.