signs of exceptional thrift and excellent

care. Mr. Sawyer states that the hardiness of the calves and the extreme ease with which they can be raised is in his opinion one of the big assets of the breed. They are rarely bothered by the disorders that frequently bother the young of other breeds. Plans are being made to raise all the heifers for the time being, until the farm reaches its capacity of registered stock. The surplus bulls are sold at reasonable prices to farmers both for heading purebred herds, and for building up grade herds, The herd is under state and federal test for tuberculosis.

Lone Oak Queen: Record 6,753 lbs. milk in 211 days. form of good clover hay and corn silage. Last year a start was made in alfalfa and the crop was so successful and the effect of its feeding value so noticeable that this year it is planned to put in ten acres. The trial plot of alfalfa was grown as a demonstration under the direction of the Rockingham County Farm Bureau and the Extension Service of the New Hampshire State College. Various College. Various cash crops are raised to supplement the income from dairying and to work into the crop rotation. Potatoes, tomatoes,

squash and fruit make up these cash crops, all are grown under up-to-date methods and good results are obtained.

The farm has a wonderful market for its dairy products in the nearby city of Haverhill, Massachusetts, where a big reputation has been won for quality products. A large retail milk route is conducted and the milk sold at

At Willow Cottage Farm they seem to have solved one of the big problems of profitable dairying, that is, in making a start with registered animals from the right foundation stock. There is little question but what the success or failure of every farm with purebred stock depends somewhat upon the quality of the foundation stock and in this respect the Sawyers have made an excellent start. Their herd is one that would command attention anywhere and one that gives evidence of great promise

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in the future. The farm is in every respect an ideal example of what more New England farms should be. The progressive practices used, the business-like method with which everything is conducted, the fine purebred herd, the successful growing of cash crops, and best of all the fine co-operation and joint ownership of father and sons, all go to make this farm an excellent paying proposition, an ideal home, and an asset of which the State of New Hampshire may well be proud.

IN THE SPRINGTIME

BY ANDREW L. FELKER

Commissioner of Agriculture

and make active the brain, harden the flesh and build up athletic muscles; in fact it is the true growing season of the mind and the body, and the Easter time for development and growth of the Soul.

IS the natural tendency of the pressed and wearied nerves, strengthen human mind to desire to see something growing out of doors as the Springtime season of the year approaches, and most folks want to have a part in helping to make things grow. Ambitions expand like swelling buds and bursting corollas, and he who becomes inspired will be found digging in the garden, raking up the lawn, planting the seed, not because he delights in or loves the work especially, but because he joys in seeing things grow. It is Mother Nature's call to her children to cuddle close to her warm breast again.

Life out of doors in the Springtime is vibrant with those necessary elements that revitalize and make new the de

There is no one who toils for pleasure or profit under a more enlightening and life inspiring environment, than does the farmer. His lot is cast in the midst of living, growing things, and he, in fuller measure than any of his fellows, has a larger share in the training and developing of those God-given essential elements which with his aid and care, respond to a renewed and larger usefulness in the economy of life.

Hail, all hail the Springtime!

Part of the Map of New York, including part of New England.-London, 1779.

A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP of early maps of New York. This is, of

the Province of

NEW YORK and Part of the

JERSEYS,

NEW ENGLAND and CANADA
Showing the SCENES of our
MILITARY OPERATIONS during
the present WAR.

Also the NEW ERECTED STATE OF
VERMONT

course, excepting the rare Blanchard and Langdon map of New Hampshire, including the Hampshire Grants, prepared for publication in 1761 before Claremont was settled or chartered. About a quarter of the land afterwards included in Claremont is there shown as a part of Buckingham, a township whose charter was soon forfeited. (See Granite Monthly, vol. LI, p. 500.)

This shows Ashley and neighboring towns exactly as on the English map of 1779, except that the name Spring- The map of New Hampshire prefield, Vermont, is added, appearing in its pared pared for publication in 1773 and proper place between Rockingham and 1774, by Samuel Holland, Esqr., "SurWeathersfield; better known as Belveyor General for the Northern Dislows Falls. Black River is shown rising trict of North America," is the most in Dunmore Lake and flowing up, over accurate contemporaneous map of any

(1) Mr. Brown and Mr. H. G. Tupper, also of Springfield, Vt., happened one afternoon to call at the same hour upon the writer at his summer home in Claremont. After listening to their discussion of rare colonial maps, with the occasional mention of an original owned by one or the other, he finally ventured to ask; "Does every resident of Springfield possess a collection of early American maps?" From Mr. Brown instantly came the answer, "Why, over there it's a prerequisite for voting."

Mr. Brown carries his interest in things historical so far that his house, owned for generations in the family, is a most carefully preserved, and only where necessary restored, early New England farmhouse. Everything about it, every piece of furniture, furnishing and almost every utensil in it is such as was to be found in the best New England farmhouses of a century or more ago.

Part of Map Published in the Political Magazine for October, 1780.