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... acre are more profitable than thirty ; that to sow grass with grain in the spring and have four- fifths of it destroyed , is not so well as to sow it by itself in the au- tumn and get two or three tons of hay to the acre the next season ...
... acre are more profitable than thirty ; that to sow grass with grain in the spring and have four- fifths of it destroyed , is not so well as to sow it by itself in the au- tumn and get two or three tons of hay to the acre the next season ...
Page 31
... acre of land for a more careful experiment ; sub - soiled one half , manured and otherwise cultivated alike , I was fully satisfied of the fact above stated . The crop of potatoes was a failure from dis- ease , therefore I could not ...
... acre of land for a more careful experiment ; sub - soiled one half , manured and otherwise cultivated alike , I was fully satisfied of the fact above stated . The crop of potatoes was a failure from dis- ease , therefore I could not ...
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... acre . Mr. Bush- by's crop on more tha half an acre , is at the rate of thirty - two and one - third tons to the acre . There may have been larger crops than these ; but the largest that has heretofore come to our knowledge in this ...
... acre . Mr. Bush- by's crop on more tha half an acre , is at the rate of thirty - two and one - third tons to the acre . There may have been larger crops than these ; but the largest that has heretofore come to our knowledge in this ...
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... acres have been cultivated ) is One hundred and Eighty bar- rels , or from four to five hundred bushels per acre . The average value , for several successive years , has been one dollar per barrel . The pros- ent year , the best kinds ...
... acres have been cultivated ) is One hundred and Eighty bar- rels , or from four to five hundred bushels per acre . The average value , for several successive years , has been one dollar per barrel . The pros- ent year , the best kinds ...
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... acre of flat land to this use . The soil a sandy loam of fair quality . The land had been planted with carrots and ... acre . In 1845 , I took a piece of elevated ground , three - quarters of an acre , rocky , hard land , strong , black ...
... acre of flat land to this use . The soil a sandy loam of fair quality . The land had been planted with carrots and ... acre . In 1845 , I took a piece of elevated ground , three - quarters of an acre , rocky , hard land , strong , black ...
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