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his wife, Carrie A. Hayward, took up the duties, and she has the 

 unique distinction of being the only woman crop correspondent of the 

 Board. She is a member of the Halifax Grange and of Mayflower 

 Pomona Grange, and has been secretary of the Halifax Farmers' 

 Club for sixteen years. She is actively engaged in fruit growing, 

 dairying and poultry raising. 



S. A. HiCKOX, Williamstown, Berkshire County. — Mr. Hiekox is 

 another former member of the Board, having served three years as 

 a representative of the Hoosac Valley Society. He has been presi- 

 dent and fix'st and second vice-president, and a member of the execu- 

 tive committee of that society, and held office in the Old Berkshire 

 Agricultural Society of Pittsfield and Great Barrington. He repre- 

 sented his district in the lower branch of the Legislature, and while 

 in the Senate in 1892-93 was chairman of the committee on agricul- 

 ture. He was also a member and was master of Green River Grange 

 for ten years. He has been very active in institute work and has 

 addressed many audiences in the several New England States. Dairy- 

 ing and poultry keeping were his chief interests in active agriculture, 

 John N. Isham, Ludlow, Hampden County. — Died Dee. 14, 1912. 

 Willis E. Knight, Gardner, Worcester County. — Mr. Knight, 

 who has been a member of Gardner Grange for twenty-seven years, 

 has been one of our correspondents for the whole period since the 

 Crop Report was first issued. He is now fifty-six years of age. 

 Dairying, fruit growing and market-gardening are his chief interests. 

 C. B, Lyman, Southampton, Hampshire County. — Died during 

 the past winter. 



H. C. Russell, North Hadley, Hampshire County. — Mr. Russell, 

 a man sixty-eight years old, has been a eori'espondent since the re- 

 port was first issued, in 1888. He is a member of the Hampshire, 

 Franklin and Hampden Agricultural College and has done general 

 farming with tobacco as the predominating crop. 



Arthur B. Savary, Wareham, Plymouth County. — While this 

 town cannot strictly be considered as an agricultural section, still 

 there is more or less general farming done. Adolphus Savary was 

 one of the original contributors to the report. He passed away in 

 1894, however, and his son, Mr. Arthur B. Savary, took up the work 

 the following year. Although Mr. Savary is a general farmer, the 

 principal crop in that locality is the cranberry crop. Mr. Savary 

 is a man forty-one years of age. 



Henry S. Sawyer, Sterling, Worcester County, — For twenty-five 

 yeai-s Mr. Sawyer has served Massachusetts agriculture in the ca- 

 pacity of crop correspondent. A man now sixty-nine years of age, 

 he has been secretary of the Sterling Farmers' Club, secretary of 

 Sterling Grange seventeen years, master of that organization, a 

 member of the Worcester East Agricultural Society and of Lancaster 

 Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. Fruit growing, market-gardening and poultry 



