Bui. 984. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate IX. 





Fig. I. Portrait of Norris Shepardson, 

 Painted by His Cousin, Ira Shepardson, 

 which Hangs in Academy Memorial 

 Hall. 



Norris Shepardson was a farmer-poet. His public 

 gifts were many and lavish. A typical case is that of 

 a ten-acre piece of woods, willed to Woodside Ceme- 

 tery, near Rural Hill, with the proviso: "No live 

 tree in it to be cut down in a hundred years." 



The Academy board of trustees was made trustee of 

 this gift. 



Fig. 2. —Home of Norris Shepardson, Poet-Farmer. Farm No. 62. 



