Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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Ballamoar Farm A Few Prize Winners

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cesses and reverses. Nine children have been born to them, six sons and three daughters. Of these, five sons, John T. III. Lawrence, George, Alfred, and Arthur, and two daughters, Blanche and Kinnie, are alive, and soon all will have reached maturity. Mrs. Caine is of French descent. Professor Caine of Manx, and that this combination of Latin and Celtic blood produces excellent results needs no proof to all who know the Caines of the third generation. They speak for themselves to all A. ( folk. Their vivacity and emotional temperament distinguish them from the Teutons round about them. For two years. Mr. Caine was County Recorder for Cache County. June 28. 1888. lie was elected Secretary of tin first Board of Trustees of the Agricultural College of Ctah. Since that time, for 28 years, he has been continuously in the employ of the College, as instructor, registrar, auditor, .Secretary of the Faculty and Council, and Recording Secretary of the Board of Trustees. All his life Mr. Caine has been active in both commercial and religious circles. In the early eighties he, with Serge F. Ballif. organized a grocery firm, which was in successful operation until 1890. lie was for a number of years connected with the Sunday School of the Fifth Ward of Logan and was later a member of the Cache Stake Sunday School Fnion Board. For a long series of years he was the Logan correspondent of the old Salt Lake Herald, and edited its Agricultrun.l Department. At the present writing. Professor Caine is President of the Logan City Council, a position he has occupied for several years. 'fhe latest significant event in Mr. Caine's career is the purchase, some two years ago. of a large farm about twelve miles north of Logan, in this undertaking he is associated with his sons.—the place belongs to “Father and the Boys.” Here there is ample opportunity for them all to work out their agricultural proclivities, ns the farm contains no less than 440 acres. It is called “Ballamoar Farm.” from the ancestral Manx estate, and the owners intend to make it an ideal pure-bred stock farm. At present there is already a beginning of fifty pure-bred Jerseys on the place, and a nucleus for a herd of Berkshire pigs. Later Hampshire sheep will 1m added. Only pure-bred animals will be permitted to exist on the estate.—even the cats and dogs arc not exempt. In The Boys At Cornell —12—

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f ct. registered Scotch Collie dogs. White Leghorn and Rhode Island lied chickens have already taken up their abode at Rallainonr. The farm is beautifully situated at the foot of the mountains .just south of Richmond. The house is large and surrounded by trees, with private water-system and all modern improvements. The great barns are planned on a scale commensurate with a farm of this size intended for pure-bred stock. The buildings are at a considerable distance from the main road, and an impressive approach has been planned. All in all. it will be. in a few years, an ideal country estate, one of the finest in tlie arid West. 14—