In packing and marketing methods the Hardy farm has reached very high development. Harold Hardy is known as the most skillful fruit packer in New Hampshire, and there is no question as to his right to the title. Practically the entire crop of early varieties is marketed in the Boston Market Box, a relatively shallow square box, which when skilfully packed makes an exhibit package superior to the oblong box packs which come from the Pacific Northwest. Each apple is placed in position, layer on layer, row on row, with the result that the appearance of the completed box is most attractive. Buyers and sellers of New England early fruit agree in commending this package. The Hardy trucks carry these boxes by the thousand to the markets of southern New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts.

Farm Management studies have shown that the seasons at which orchard work may be carried on are relatively limited. There are many times of year when there is little work to be done on the trees, and therefore it is usually most profitable to combine the orchard industry with other types of farming. At the Hardy farm there is a variety of byproducts which without exaggeration keep the men busy every day in the year. In a small way the farm is still in dairy production, there being a herd of twelve head of cattle,-seven milking cows, all of them high producers. Between the

rows of the young cultivated orchards various truck and farm crops are produced. Thus, there is a full acre of strawberries and more than six acres of horticultural beans. The beans are grown from seed selected each year from the most perfect and best colored plants, for the public pays best for the dark red pods. It is forty-four miles by road from the Hardy farm to North Market Street in Boston, and on many an early morning in late summer the Hardy truck pulls up at the Boston market with its load of shell beans to be sold at an excellent profit. In season there are raspberries and again crops of sweet corn and cabbage. There are fields of field corn interplanted with pumpkins and plantings of tomatoes as large as on many another farm in which truck gardening is the chief industry. In another field one may find a planting of squash, mostly of the Blue Hubbard variety, and, like the beans, grown from seed carefully selected year by year. Thus, while the fruit crop is the main stay, the income from this source is ably abetted by returns from these other crops.

The record of achievement at the Hardy Farm is one of which its owner may be justly proud. When the fruit is exhibited at New England shows, a goodly share of the blue ribbons go home to Hollis; and the guest in the Hardy home may be shown an amazing collection of cups and trophies. It has not all been easy. There have been losses and discouragements. Mr. Hardy smiles a slow smile at the mention of hail. There was once when it was not a smiling matter. But the farm to-day is a splendid paying proposition, and it has been built from the ground up through the energy, skill and foresight of C. E. Hardy and Son. It answers the question as to what others can do with New Hampshire farms.

public affairs. Women knew nothing about the management of public business up to that time excepting what a male electorate had failed to accomplish. They resolved to put the party system to the test of actual personal participation before they tried to change anything or improve upon it in any way. The purposes of the League, originally declared and since adopted by every state in the union, are simple and fundamental:

To arouse women to their civic responsibility,

To supply unbiased information on public questions,

To urge women to become active members of existing political parties, To support needed legislation.

With these purposes the New Hampshire League is in full sympathy but it has decided that the need of education in citizenship should be met first of all and it believes that when women are awakened to their public responsibilites and learn to keep informed upon public questions they may be left to themselves to decide how their votes can be made to count most for efficiency in government. The work for the coming season will be continued on the strictly non-partisan lines of the past years. Local Leagues will be formed wherever called for in larger towns and cities. Study groups will be fostered in small towns for which the League will furnish teachers or material as desired. Work through civic and legislative departments of clubs and societies will be continued. Full co-operation in all efforts for the civic and political education of women, the answering of every demand made upon it by the women of the state, is the aim of the New Hampshire League of Women Voters. The year's plan includes two schools of citizenship, one in the late Autumn and one in the Spring, both to be north of Concord. The work will begin the middle. of September in Carroll county.

During the season just ended two very successful schools of citizenship

have been held. The first at Keene, the home of the retiring President, Mrs. Lula F. Lesure at which candidates for Governor, United States Congressman and other offices addressed the women. Several notable men and women from New Hampshire and Massachusetts took part in discussing laws and public policies the women need to know, and Mrs. Maude Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters, gave an inspiring address on the work and aims of the organization nationally.

Just before the local city election in the Spring another school of citizenship was held by the Laconia League, one of the finest working leagues in the state under the leadership of Mrs. Minnie E. Thompson. Candidates for mayor and other offices appeared and outlined city conditions and their policies if elected. Able speakers discussed such questions as the direct primary, uniform laws for all states, the machinery of government and the County budget. In the evening a debate was held discussing the proposed taxation amendment to the state constitution. This was broadcasted by radio and attracted a great deal of attention.

Dr. Anna B. Parker, the new President of the New Hampshire League of Women Voters is a native of the state, though she lived for twenty-five years in Boston. Her father was William D. Dimick of Lyme, her mother was Anne M. Folsom of Gilmanton and on both sides her ancestry is of pure New England Stock. land Stock. Her forefathers took part in every struggle in the early history of the colonies and she is eligible to every society of colonial descendents in New England. She was educated at Gilmanton Academy, the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston University and the New York Post Graduate Medical School. She practiced medicine in Boston twelve years and holds licenses to practice in New York and New Hampshire as well. She is also an ordained minister and preached six years