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Page 18
... bushels of marketable fruit , worth from five to eight dollars , on an average of prices for the last eight or ten years . Some trees , in particular seasons , yield much more than this . I was informed by one of the trustees of our ...
... bushels of marketable fruit , worth from five to eight dollars , on an average of prices for the last eight or ten years . Some trees , in particular seasons , yield much more than this . I was informed by one of the trustees of our ...
Page 24
... bushels of corn from an acre , gets barely enough to pay him for the expense of cultivation , and in addition to ... bushels of corn , let him apply thirty loads . This additional twenty loads , at the usual price of manure in this part ...
... bushels of corn from an acre , gets barely enough to pay him for the expense of cultivation , and in addition to ... bushels of corn , let him apply thirty loads . This additional twenty loads , at the usual price of manure in this part ...
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... bushel ; and it has brought the best price in the market , when before the deep plough- ing , the land scarcely produced the seed ; the wheat was poor and shrivelled ; and as I had no manure to lay on the ground I can ascribe the ...
... bushel ; and it has brought the best price in the market , when before the deep plough- ing , the land scarcely produced the seed ; the wheat was poor and shrivelled ; and as I had no manure to lay on the ground I can ascribe the ...
Page 37
... bushels sugar beets , 6 bushels ground oats , 8 bushels indian meal , Pasturage and driving , 37 50 13 05 2 88 520 11 00 199 98 44 05 $ 244 03 Milking , estimated 6 cts per day , 21 90-91 53 Net produce for the year , $ 152 50 CHARLES F ...
... bushels sugar beets , 6 bushels ground oats , 8 bushels indian meal , Pasturage and driving , 37 50 13 05 2 88 520 11 00 199 98 44 05 $ 244 03 Milking , estimated 6 cts per day , 21 90-91 53 Net produce for the year , $ 152 50 CHARLES F ...
Page 98
... bushels of rye . For sever- al years no other manure has been applied to this part of the farm , than stubble , weeds , & c . , ploughed At the usual time the crop was harvested , and yielded one hundred and seventy seven and one eighth ...
... bushels of rye . For sever- al years no other manure has been applied to this part of the farm , than stubble , weeds , & c . , ploughed At the usual time the crop was harvested , and yielded one hundred and seventy seven and one eighth ...
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