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... 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 no country in the world which can dispose of so large a portion of its ...
... 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 no country in the world which can dispose of so large a portion of its ...
Page 25
... containing thirty two rods , but were of unequal lengths . The number of furrows ploughed in each lot could not therefore be taken into the account , in awarding the premiums . The land was flat , but little elevated above the level of ...
... containing thirty two rods , but were of unequal lengths . The number of furrows ploughed in each lot could not therefore be taken into the account , in awarding the premiums . The land was flat , but little elevated above the level of ...
Page 39
... containing one acre and three quarters . Lot No. 2. on the opposite side of the St. containing three quarters of an acre . Lot No. 3. situ- ate in the field next adjoining easterly , containing half an acre . Lot No. 1. has been ...
... containing one acre and three quarters . Lot No. 2. on the opposite side of the St. containing three quarters of an acre . Lot No. 3. situ- ate in the field next adjoining easterly , containing half an acre . Lot No. 1. has been ...
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... containing one acre and one third . In 1842 it was broke up and planted with corn . About four cord of compost manure was then applied . It yielded about fifty bushels to the acre . In 1843 , I ploughed about nine inches deep , and put ...
... containing one acre and one third . In 1842 it was broke up and planted with corn . About four cord of compost manure was then applied . It yielded about fifty bushels to the acre . In 1843 , I ploughed about nine inches deep , and put ...
Page 54
... contain 120 rods . It ought to be added here that the field exhibits a case of clean culture ; weeds and grass have both yielded to the hoe . The Committee think that Mr. Low is fairly entitled to 54 ON CRANBERRIES .
... contain 120 rods . It ought to be added here that the field exhibits a case of clean culture ; weeds and grass have both yielded to the hoe . The Committee think that Mr. Low is fairly entitled to 54 ON CRANBERRIES .
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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