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Page 12
... expense , soils were reformed in this way . But the invention of the sub- soil plough , the greatest achievement of modern art , as applied to agriculture , will enable the Essex far- mer to convert his sterile soils into fields of ...
... expense , soils were reformed in this way . But the invention of the sub- soil plough , the greatest achievement of modern art , as applied to agriculture , will enable the Essex far- mer to convert his sterile soils into fields of ...
Page 13
... expense which would be ruinous to the farmer , who is seeking the means of support from working on the soil . But a much lar- ger proportion of this unimproved land , estimated in the gross in the reports of the valuation committee in ...
... expense which would be ruinous to the farmer , who is seeking the means of support from working on the soil . But a much lar- ger proportion of this unimproved land , estimated in the gross in the reports of the valuation committee in ...
Page 14
... expense . This is not matter of speculation , theory , or book learning , but of actual and repeated experiments , made by practical farmers , who have shown us the results , the processes , and the expense of the ope- ration . The ...
... expense . This is not matter of speculation , theory , or book learning , but of actual and repeated experiments , made by practical farmers , who have shown us the results , the processes , and the expense of the ope- ration . The ...
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... expense of good husbandry , he had better abandon it at once , for all experience teaches , that no man can afford to be a farmer under a system of bad husbandry . The earth was not made for thriftless , inefficient , or unskilful ...
... expense of good husbandry , he had better abandon it at once , for all experience teaches , that no man can afford to be a farmer under a system of bad husbandry . The earth was not made for thriftless , inefficient , or unskilful ...
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... expense of cultivation , and in addition to this , by the ordinary method of ploughing , his field , at each successive rotation , is deteriorating , his crops becoming less , and in a few years he finds he must abandon his ex- hausted ...
... expense of cultivation , and in addition to this , by the ordinary method of ploughing , his field , at each successive rotation , is deteriorating , his crops becoming less , and in a few years he finds he must abandon his ex- hausted ...
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