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... called him before the assembled tribes , and his defence is a noble commentary upon the character of an honest , manly , independent farmer . Placing in full view of the people , his plough and other implements of agriculture — his ...
... called him before the assembled tribes , and his defence is a noble commentary upon the character of an honest , manly , independent farmer . Placing in full view of the people , his plough and other implements of agriculture — his ...
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... called the garden of Europe . Its inhabitants are farmers , and very few farms contain more than seventy - five acres , yet the best authority asserts that these small farms bring more to market than the large ones , and that there is ...
... called the garden of Europe . Its inhabitants are farmers , and very few farms contain more than seventy - five acres , yet the best authority asserts that these small farms bring more to market than the large ones , and that there is ...
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... called salt - hay farmers , —and not inappro- priately so termed - for if there is any vegetable product upon which they set their hearts more than another , it is the unreclaimed salt natural growth of unreclaimed salt marsh . Those of ...
... called salt - hay farmers , —and not inappro- priately so termed - for if there is any vegetable product upon which they set their hearts more than another , it is the unreclaimed salt natural growth of unreclaimed salt marsh . Those of ...
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... called our root crops , require the greatest sup- ply of moisture , there cannot be , it would seem to me , a doubt , among farmers of a reflecting mind , as to the great benefits to their crops of the use of the subsoil Plough . It ...
... called our root crops , require the greatest sup- ply of moisture , there cannot be , it would seem to me , a doubt , among farmers of a reflecting mind , as to the great benefits to their crops of the use of the subsoil Plough . It ...
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... called upon to determine . More than once in our inquiries about the growing of the onion , have we heard it averred that beets and onions have no good fellowship with each other . Not finding any beets presented , they next looked ...
... called upon to determine . More than once in our inquiries about the growing of the onion , have we heard it averred that beets and onions have no good fellowship with each other . Not finding any beets presented , they next looked ...
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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