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... bushels of corn to the 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 ...
... bushels of corn to the 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 ...
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... bushels , and I also gave her four bags of shorts , during the Summer she has nothing but grass , and rather short feed . Lynn , September 28th , 1847 . ABNER NEWHALL . A. B. LORD'S STATEMENT . To the Committee on Milch 22 ON MILCH COWS ...
... bushels , and I also gave her four bags of shorts , during the Summer she has nothing but grass , and rather short feed . Lynn , September 28th , 1847 . ABNER NEWHALL . A. B. LORD'S STATEMENT . To the Committee on Milch 22 ON MILCH COWS ...
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... bushels from each of the subsoiled rows , while from the rows not subsoiled , planted side by side , and cultured and manured , in other respects , precisely similar to the subsoiled rows , I have tak- en but three bushels . There is a ...
... bushels from each of the subsoiled rows , while from the rows not subsoiled , planted side by side , and cultured and manured , in other respects , precisely similar to the subsoiled rows , I have tak- en but three bushels . There is a ...
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... bushels per acre . The average value , for several successive years , has been one dollar per barrel . The pros- ent year , the best kinds have commanded in the market , one dollar and a quarter per barrel . The average cost of dressing ...
... bushels per acre . The average value , for several successive years , has been one dollar per barrel . The pros- ent year , the best kinds have commanded in the market , one dollar and a quarter per barrel . The average cost of dressing ...
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... bushels at half a dollar a bushel . One quarter part of the lot was planted with seed that I purchased , that came up badly , and yielded but little . At the second time weeding , I sowed grass - seed on the land , which took well , and ...
... bushels at half a dollar a bushel . One quarter part of the lot was planted with seed that I purchased , that came up badly , and yielded but little . At the second time weeding , I sowed grass - seed on the land , which took well , and ...
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