and have included the best premium animals in New England; and the same may be said of his cattle and swine. Indeed, a more extensive display of prize ribbons than is to be seen in his office can with difficulty be found, the same having been won at the New England, Bay State, Vermont, Rhode Island, Grange State, and various other fairs in New England and Canada.

The buildings upon this farm are extensive, well appointed, and in excellent condition, every way in keeping with the reputation of the place, and admirably adapted for the purposes designed, standing well in from the highway and commanding a fine view of the beautiful Connecticut valley. The house includes the original Dow mansion, with additions and improvements, and is still the family home, over which the mother presides, Mr. Keyes being still unmarried.

Mr. Keyes was educated in the Boston public schools, at Adams academy, and Harvard college, graduating from the latter in 1887. He is a Democrat in politics, has served several years as selectman, was a member of the state legislature in 1891 and in 1893, and was the candidate of his party for senator in the Grafton district in 1894, receiving more votes than his Republican opponent, but failing of an election for want of a majority over all. He has He has also served one term as a trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. He is a director of the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers railroad, a member of Grafton lodge, F. & A. M., and of Pink Granite grange, North Haverhill. He is also vice-president

he now occupies, where he has ever since had his home. His education was obtained in the Laconia graded schools and the Bristol high school, and at the age of twenty-one he engaged with his father in the retail milk business, the partnership continuing until the death of the latter, after which he ran the business himself until 1895, making seventeen years altogether in this line, during which time he kept about thirty cows on an average.

This farm contained originally about one hundred and fifty acres, but Mr. Tilton has added thereto by purchase from time to time, until it now embraces four hundred and thirty acres, upon which there are two sets of buildings, while he has also a back pasture containing about two hundred acres. The trotting park and fair grounds of the Bristol Fair association are included within his farm limits. He has about one hundred acres in mowing and tillage, twenty-five acres being under the plow, of which fifteen are generally in corn and ten in oats and barley, the corn being ensilaged and used in supplementing the one hundred tons of hay annually cut, along with the

oats and barley, in feeding the forty head of cattle kept on the farm, together with five horses kept for farm work in the summer, and which are employed in extensive lumbering operations in winter along with several yokes of oxen.

On his home farm, Mr. Tilton has a spacious and convenient barn 110 feet long and 40 feet wide, with cellar under the whole; also two silos of 125 tons' capacity each. He has also a steam mill for doing various kinds of work on the farm, grinding grain, making cider, and preparing stove wood for market. For a few years past he has made a specialty of Holstein cows, of which he has now about twenty, the milk from the same going to the Boston market.

Mr. Tilton was united in marriage with Miss Georgianna Weeks, of Bristol, May 22, 1887. He is a charter member of New Found Lake grange, was its first overseer, and served two years as master. Politically, he is a Democrat, and has been the candidate of his party for various offices, but residing in a strong Republican town, has never been elected.