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... cultivation produced the Potato . Improved as it may have been , as late as the eighteenth century — a hundred years after its first introduction - En- glish writers speak of it as comparatively valueless . Yet the partial failure of ...
... cultivation produced the Potato . Improved as it may have been , as late as the eighteenth century — a hundred years after its first introduction - En- glish writers speak of it as comparatively valueless . Yet the partial failure of ...
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... cultivate too much land . I am well aware that I tread on disputed ground , and that there are those among us whose ... cultivation . Now he that cultivates the most land , or pro- duces the greatest crop , is not the best farmer , but ...
... cultivate too much land . I am well aware that I tread on disputed ground , and that there are those among us whose ... cultivation . Now he that cultivates the most land , or pro- duces the greatest crop , is not the best farmer , but ...
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... cultivation ; but this is not the kind of information sought in our Reports . We want the actual results on our own soil . We want our practical farmers , so far to try the experiments themselves , as to determine whether or not it will ...
... cultivation ; but this is not the kind of information sought in our Reports . We want the actual results on our own soil . We want our practical farmers , so far to try the experiments themselves , as to determine whether or not it will ...
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... cultivated after the ploughing . The labor of ploughing I consider double . One fact is settled with me from my small ... cultivation , if planted with corn or potatoes , the land being much lighter for sub - soiling , harrows better ...
... cultivated after the ploughing . The labor of ploughing I consider double . One fact is settled with me from my small ... cultivation , if planted with corn or potatoes , the land being much lighter for sub - soiling , harrows better ...
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... cultivation and may soon have an oppportunity to judge of its effects on the grass crop , as some of my land subsoiled is now sowed down to grass . Yours , very truly , DEAN ROBINSON . To J. W. PROCTOR , Esq . WORKING OXEN . The ...
... cultivation and may soon have an oppportunity to judge of its effects on the grass crop , as some of my land subsoiled is now sowed down to grass . Yours , very truly , DEAN ROBINSON . To J. W. PROCTOR , Esq . WORKING OXEN . The ...
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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