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Show p Fonr Generations on Farm. Nineteen years after tho signing of tho Declaration of Independence ono of tho members of tho Continental army, who had lived in Connecticut, moved to Chemung county, Now York, and settled down on a tract of land comprising 350 acres. Now, after four generations, tho land ia still in tho possession of tho Parsons family, a descendant of Burr Parsons, tho pioneer pio-neer owner. Whether or not tho farming methods now being used woro handed down from father to sou is not clear, but tho present productiveness and fertili- ty of tho soil show that tho Holds have not suffered by tho methods that havo -M been used, according to B. J. Parsons, ono of tbCj present owners. Ills grand- ,H father applied' llmo to the farm over fifty years ago, |