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... fields into his own . A peremptory summons 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 ...
... fields into his own . A peremptory summons 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 ...
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... fields sown with grain or grass is better than to leave them in Indian hills . Some of them have learned that gravelly knolls and sandy highlands are not the only soils which pay for cultivation ; but that our rich peat bottoms ...
... fields sown with grain or grass is better than to leave them in Indian hills . Some of them have learned that gravelly knolls and sandy highlands are not the only soils which pay for cultivation ; but that our rich peat bottoms ...
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... field for improvement . The Chinese are said to be familiar not only with the relative value and efficacy of manures , but to understand and apply without loss , that which is best fitted to stimulate and support each kind of plant ...
... field for improvement . The Chinese are said to be familiar not only with the relative value and efficacy of manures , but to understand and apply without loss , that which is best fitted to stimulate and support each kind of plant ...
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... field . There the grass , as if the recent snow had given it life , starts earliest in spring , there it is clothed with the deepest green , and there the scythe of the mower finds the thickest and heaviest grass . The af- termath ...
... field . There the grass , as if the recent snow had given it life , starts earliest in spring , there it is clothed with the deepest green , and there the scythe of the mower finds the thickest and heaviest grass . The af- termath ...
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... fields adorn . We thank thee , God of harvest - home ! for all thy fruit so fair ; The apple with its yellow cheek , the ripe and mellow pear ; The downy peach , the luscious plum , the purple - clustered vine ; And the fair show of ...
... fields adorn . We thank thee , God of harvest - home ! for all thy fruit so fair ; The apple with its yellow cheek , the ripe and mellow pear ; The downy peach , the luscious plum , the purple - clustered vine ; And the fair show of ...
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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