Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Farming in New Hampshire. [ARTICLE]

Farming in New Hampshire.

A correspondent of the Boston Transcript draws a gloomy picture of the farmers in the hill country of New Hampshire. There is no large area of land anywhere under cultivation, and only bmall herds of cattle. The scattered houses are surrounded by a garden patch, a few acres of corn, a pasture, with dense woods encircling all. “There is no real farming,” he says. “Each man has his own mouth and a smaller or larger circle of dependent mouths to fill, and he goes at it in the way that lies nearest to his hand; in the way that his father went at it before him, and his grandfather, and his father. The commercial idea for accounting for outgoes and incomings is no part of their mental makeup; they live fiom field to mouth, and their horizon is bounded by the store which takes their butter and eggs in trade, and the town house where they exercise the rights and functions of American citizens.”