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... farming seemed to be a sort of experiment , to determine with how little labor , industry , and good management , the farm could be made to clear itself from year to year.- Some farmers seem to think , that if they can procure the means ...
... farming seemed to be a sort of experiment , to determine with how little labor , industry , and good management , the farm could be made to clear itself from year to year.- Some farmers seem to think , that if they can procure the means ...
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farm any faster than he sees the way clear for a certain and compensating profit in the end ; and this end may be ... farm . In this way , the productive power of a a farm , by ju- dicious and efficient husbandry , may be indefinitely ...
farm any faster than he sees the way clear for a certain and compensating profit in the end ; and this end may be ... farm . In this way , the productive power of a a farm , by ju- dicious and efficient husbandry , may be indefinitely ...
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... farm must be washed and scoured for the pur- pose of obtaining this treasure . In this county , we have abundant sources of supplying it , and though all farms are not equally privileged in this respect , yet none are destitute of the ...
... farm must be washed and scoured for the pur- pose of obtaining this treasure . In this county , we have abundant sources of supplying it , and though all farms are not equally privileged in this respect , yet none are destitute of the ...
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... farm can be found , which does not contain some land of this description . If susceptible of drain- ing at a moderate expense , these lands , in their pre- sent condition , though producing nothing except what is offensive alike to the ...
... farm can be found , which does not contain some land of this description . If susceptible of drain- ing at a moderate expense , these lands , in their pre- sent condition , though producing nothing except what is offensive alike to the ...
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... farm which will not reimburse the 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 ...
... farm which will not reimburse the 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 ...
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