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Title: Life and times in Hopkinton, N.H
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Lord, Charles Chase, 1841-1911
Subjects: Hopkinton (N.H.) -- History Hopkinton (N.H.) -- Biography
Publisher: Concord, N.H. Republican press association
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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suppression offamine. In 1816, there occurred a prominent illustration inkind. The year was very unfruitful through an intensityof cold. On inauguration day, in June, there was snow tothe depth of four inches on a level. An early frost inautumn killed all the corn. The farmers cut it up andstooked it, but, being in the milk, it heated and spoiled.As a consequence of the induced scarcity, corn sold in Hop-kinton as high as $3.50 a bushel. Corn and grain have been sold in this town and taken toVermont for consumption. People then could not antici-pate the times that were coming. One of our formertownsmen tells us that he well remembers the verj*first time his father bought a barrel of flour. The pricepaid was only four dollars, but the act of purchase wasdeemed so extravagant as to be almost culpable. It couldnot then be popularly foreseen that the time was at handwhen it would be almost as rare for a farmer in Hopkintonto raise his own flour as it was then rare for him to pur-chase it.
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James M. Connor. AN AGRICULTURAL SKETCH. 223 In the earlier times, the production and maintenance offarm animals were also much larger. In districts where it isnow comparatively rare to find a yoke of oxen, the supply ofthis kind of stock was multitudinous, the stock of differentfarmers being recorded by ear-marks on the book of thetown-clerk, for perfect identification when astray or oncommon land. Nothing was more common than to ownseveral yokes of large oxen, to say nothing of the usuallyattendant array of steers. Not more than sixty years ago,Reuben E. French, a former townsman, seeking cattle forthe down-country markets, bought over seventy head inone day. They were all purchased in one district in thistown, and the transaction required less time than half aday. At the present time it is nothing uncommon for a manto travel over parts of several towns to buy a single yokeof oxen. Besides the usual complement of horned stock andgeneral farm animals, there was at one time quite a sp

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