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Davis Copeland, Campello, Plymouth County. — Age, seventy- 

 eight years. President, West Bridgewater Farmers' Club; trustee 

 of Plymouth County Agricultural Society; master and overseer of 

 West Bridgewater Grange; member of Plymouth Agricultural So- 

 ciety, Brockton Agricultural Society, West Bridgewater Grange 

 (charter member). Old Colony Pomona and Bay State Agricultural 

 society. Interested in general farming, with fruit growing, daii-ying 

 and market-gardening as his chief interests. 



R. H. CuSHMAN, Bernardston, Franklin County. — No informa- 

 tion received for publication. 



H. A. Ford, Dalton, Berkshire County. — Age, forty-eight years. 

 President, Highland Agricultural Society in 1913; president. Hill- 

 side Agricultural Society for two years, also vice-president of Hill- 

 side Agricultural Society for many years; and master, Windsor 

 Grange for one year. Interested in general farming, with dairying 

 and poultry raising as specialties. 



Peter Holt, North Andover, Essex County. — Not heard from. 



Henry H. Kingsbury, Leicester, Worcester County. — Age, 

 seventy-six years. Member, Spencer Grange twenty-five years; mas- 

 ter, overseer and lecturer of said grange ten years in all; member, 

 board of assessors, town of Leicester, for several years, and at pres- 

 ent a member of the park commission of that town. 



L. J. NoRTHUP, Cheshire, Berkshire County. — Age, seventy-three 

 years. Member, State Board of Agriculture for three years; mem- 

 ber of crop-viewing committee and committee on division at Hoosae 

 Valley Fair for a number of years. Notes a marked improvement 

 in general farming in the vicinity of Cheshire. 



Daniel R. Wicks, West Falmouth, Barnstable County. — Age, 

 seventy-seven years. Has acted as judge of fruit and vegetables on 

 several occasions for the Barnstable County Fair Association. In- 

 terested in fruit growing and market-gardening. 



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George Wm. Adams, Rowley, Essex County. — Age, fifty-eight 

 years. Secretary, Byfield Farmers' Club for eight or ten years; 

 member, Massachusetts Society of Beekeepers and Essex County 

 Agricultural Society. Bee culture a specialty. 



Charles B. Bennett, Ludlow, Hampden County. — Age, fifty- 

 nine years. President and secretary of Harvest Club; master, lec- 

 turer and overseer of subordinate and Pomona granges; member, 

 Brigham Lodge of Masons and Hampden County Agricultural Bet- 

 terment Society. Interested in fruit growing, market-gardening and 

 poultry raising. 



D. 0. Chickering, Enfield, Hampshire County. — Age, sixty 

 years. Graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College and Boston 

 University. Has acted as correspondent for the New England Home- 



