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father's farm, planting bu1 one acre the
first /ear. His success with that acre en-
couraged him to continue, and each year
he planted .1 larger acreage. In [900 he
began growing his crops under shade,
being one of the firsl growers in his
tion tu adopl thai plan, all having hereto-
fore grown their crops in the open. His
experience in growing four crops in two
years lias Keen alluded tO, bul perhaps a
still inure curious fact is that now, six-
teen years later, he ships tobacco to Port.)
Rico, seemingly another case of "carry-
ing coals to Newcastle." Mr. Mayes has
now one hundred and forty acres under
cultivation devoted to tobacco, and since
[905 has been a buyer and packer, a part-
ner in the firm, Ketcham & Have--, during
the first five years of that period. He
then formed a partnership with Cullman
Brothers of New York City. His farm is
not wholly devoted to tobacco, but main-
tains a herd of twenty-live cattle and produces
good crops of grain and potatoes. He
is a director of the Simsbury Banking &
Trust Company, and has other interests
of importance.
Mr. Hayes is a member of the Knights
of Columbus of Hartford, the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, and Foresters of
America, having been grand chief ranger
of the Connecticut branch of the last
named order. He is a Democrat in poli-
tics, and has served his town both as
selectman and assessor. He is a man of
high standing in his community, and
holds the perfect confidence of his busi-
ness associates.
Mr. Hayes married Xellic, daughter of
John Cunningham, of Hartford, and they
are the parents of six children : Mary E.,
married Thomas Mahan. of Hartford;
Francis, now a resident of Detroit, Mich-
igan, married Nina Downes, of Bridge-
port; William T., died in 1918, aged
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twenty six, leaving a widow, May il
ley) Hayes, and three children, Mary,
William, and James; Arthur, married
Ethel Foley, and has a daughter, Eliza-
beth Folej ;
u ith their parents.
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DANIELS, Herbert Orrin,
and George are living
Deputy Dairy And Food Commissioner.
One of the mosl widely-known and
among the most progressive farmers of
the State of Connecticut, Herbert Orrin
Daniels, Deputy Dairy and Food Com-
missioner, was bom April 11, [868, in
Middletown, Connecticut, son of Samuel
Buckley and Lucy (Bailey) Daniels.
Mr. Daniels grew up in the town of
Middletown, receiving his education in
the schools of that town and Durham, and
during his vacation periods was accustomed
to assist in the work of the home
farm. His entire attention has been
given to agriculture, to which he has
brought an intelligent study, and in which
he has gained a wide reputation through-
out the State. Following the death of
his father, in association with his brother,
James Elmer Daniels, he engaged in the
dairy business in iS\88. The beginning
was on a small scale, but through the
energy and intelligent application of the
proprietors it rapidly grew. They were
the founders and organizers of the Mill-
brook Dair\ r Company, now having headquarters
on Main street. Middletown,
which they equipped with everything in
the way of new machinery, making one
of the most sanitary and successful estab-
lishments of the kind in the State. Their
interest in this was finally disposed of
and each of the brothers engaged independently
in the dairy business. They
were the first to erect a silo in the town of
Middletown, and originated and built the
first circular brick structure of this kind