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... fruit - tree does it for himself as well as for those who come after him ; to graft an apple tree is better than to suffer it to grow wild ; that manures are quite as efficacious when properly composted as when used fresh from the barn ...
... fruit - tree does it for himself as well as for those who come after him ; to graft an apple tree is better than to suffer it to grow wild ; that manures are quite as efficacious when properly composted as when used fresh from the barn ...
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... fruit as before . When his youngest daughter was married , he gave her half of what remained , still the produce of his vineyard was undiminished . The secret was simply this , that the more thorough tillage which he was enabled to give ...
... fruit as before . When his youngest daughter was married , he gave her half of what remained , still the produce of his vineyard was undiminished . The secret was simply this , that the more thorough tillage which he was enabled to give ...
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... 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 radiant flowers that in our gardens shine . We thank thee , God of ...
... 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 radiant flowers that in our gardens shine . We thank thee , God of ...
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... fruits and garden vegetables , in the im- mediate vicinity of large markets , such as strawberries , asparagus , cellery , & c . & c . , for which the demand is limited ; and which must necessarily be distributed and consumed at the ...
... fruits and garden vegetables , in the im- mediate vicinity of large markets , such as strawberries , asparagus , cellery , & c . & c . , for which the demand is limited ; and which must necessarily be distributed and consumed at the ...
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... two very fine pigs , which were too old to come within the rules of the Society . For the Committee , R. A. MERRIAM , 1 Lynn , September 59th , 1847 . ON FRUIT TREES . The Committee on Nurseries of Fruit 48 ON SWINE .
... two very fine pigs , which were too old to come within the rules of the Society . For the Committee , R. A. MERRIAM , 1 Lynn , September 59th , 1847 . ON FRUIT TREES . The Committee on Nurseries of Fruit 48 ON SWINE .
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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