Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society from ...Press of Foote & Brown, 1847 |
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... breeds of cattle . The best foreign varieties have been made available to the man of the most limited means . Far be ... breed carefully exaggerated , I have some- times thought that the sin of its owner was laid at the door of the brute ...
... breeds of cattle . The best foreign varieties have been made available to the man of the most limited means . Far be ... breed carefully exaggerated , I have some- times thought that the sin of its owner was laid at the door of the brute ...
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... breed in our own county . Some of our farmers might be surprised to learn that the average yield of their cows does not exceed three or four quarts daily , taking the year through . With proper care and management , this yield , it is ...
... breed in our own county . Some of our farmers might be surprised to learn that the average yield of their cows does not exceed three or four quarts daily , taking the year through . With proper care and management , this yield , it is ...
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... breeds . It has sometimes been question- ed whether stock can be profitably raised in this county ; there can be no doubt that if stock is to be raised , the best breed and the best animals should be selected . Respectfully submitted ...
... breeds . It has sometimes been question- ed whether stock can be profitably raised in this county ; there can be no doubt that if stock is to be raised , the best breed and the best animals should be selected . Respectfully submitted ...
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... breed , and raised by himself ; had he been able to have given the Committee an account of the whole product of her ... breeds of cows should be sought , and no less important that they should be properly trained up and well . fed . All ...
... breed , and raised by himself ; had he been able to have given the Committee an account of the whole product of her ... breeds of cows should be sought , and no less important that they should be properly trained up and well . fed . All ...
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... breed nine years old ; she calved the 9th day of May , and the calf was sold on the 29th , of the same month . From the 1st to the 20th of June inclusive , she gave 311 quarts of milk , being a fraction over fifteen quarts and a pint ...
... breed nine years old ; she calved the 9th day of May , and the calf was sold on the 29th , of the same month . From the 1st to the 20th of June inclusive , she gave 311 quarts of milk , being a fraction over fifteen quarts and a pint ...
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1st premium acre Agriculture Andover ANDREW NICHOLS animals apple awarded Beverly breed bushels bushes butter carrots cattle churning Committee compost cords cranberry cream crop cultivation dairy Daniel Danvers ditches Dodge dollars Essex Essex County exhibited experiment farm farmers feed feet fodder four fowls fruit trees furrows GENTLEMEN,-I grain grass gratuity gravel ground grow growth half harrowed heifer Henry Poor horse hundred improvement inches Indian corn Ipswich John Jonathan Berry June kind labor land loam Lynn Lynnfield maize manure Marblehead meadow Milch Cows milk Moses Newhall nursery offer for premium onions opinion orchard pasture pear planted plough potatoes pounds present produce profitable Putnam quantity quarts raised respectfully roots rows Salem salt season second premium seed Sept September Society soil sowed spring stalks STATEMENT Stephen Osborn subsoil teams Topsfield turnip varieties vegetable weeds West Newbury winter yield