BIOGRAPHY OF EDSON GAYLORD. 



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was employed to teach this same school each successive winter for 

 three years and never saw or had better behaved pupils. His school 

 was increased from adjoining districts till the benches were not suf- 

 ficient to hold them. 



During this time he worked out on farms in the summer and 

 also put in much time improving- his old home, blasting huge rocks 



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MR. GAYLORD IN HIS ORCHARD. 



and laying them into heavy stone fences. In this way he enclosed 

 three acres, which he set full of apple, pear, cherry and peach trees. 

 In 1899 he found all gone but the apple trees, these being loaded 

 with the very finest fruit. He obtained his trees from the pastures, 

 woods and by-ways, grafting them the year after set. His cherry 



