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... farmers in the same degree guilty as was Cresicus the Roman ; for of all the employments in which men engage , none ... farmer , who by skillfully draining , fencing , manuring and planting , has increased the intrinsic value of a piece ...
... farmers in the same degree guilty as was Cresicus the Roman ; for of all the employments in which men engage , none ... farmer , who by skillfully draining , fencing , manuring and planting , has increased the intrinsic value of a piece ...
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... farmers , is the crookedest road , that it ever entered into the imagination of man to conceive . Why , if the best iron plough of this day , had been presented to a farmer thirty years ago , he would as soon have told the assessors ...
... farmers , is the crookedest road , that it ever entered into the imagination of man to conceive . Why , if the best iron plough of this day , had been presented to a farmer thirty years ago , he would as soon have told the assessors ...
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... farmer that however in- dependent he may be , he is not so much so , as that the experience of others will not profit ... farmers to own and cultivate too much land . I am well aware that I tread on disputed ground , and that there are ...
... farmer that however in- dependent he may be , he is not so much so , as that the experience of others will not profit ... farmers to own and cultivate too much land . I am well aware that I tread on disputed ground , and that there are ...
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... 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 no country in the world which can dispose of so ...
... 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 no country in the world which can dispose of so ...
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... farmers of that day collected their manure and stored it in covered pits , so as to check the escape of the drain- age . " How many farmers in the County , leave their manure ex- posed to sun , and air and rain , for half the year ! Are ...
... farmers of that day collected their manure and stored it in covered pits , so as to check the escape of the drain- age . " How many farmers in the County , leave their manure ex- posed to sun , and air and rain , for half the year ! Are ...
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