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... experience to convince . Qualified but poorly in any respect , the fact that the invitation to address you was given unanimously , was the strong reason which made me presumptuous enough to accept it . It is 4 MR . PAYSON'S ADDRESS .
... experience to convince . Qualified but poorly in any respect , the fact that the invitation to address you was given unanimously , was the strong reason which made me presumptuous enough to accept it . It is 4 MR . PAYSON'S ADDRESS .
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... given one hundred and fifty years be- fore the Christian era , yet many of us are apt to regard composting as a new discovery , and we probably should never have thought it worth trying , if some modern humbugging agent had not coaxed ...
... given one hundred and fifty years be- fore the Christian era , yet many of us are apt to regard composting as a new discovery , and we probably should never have thought it worth trying , if some modern humbugging agent had not coaxed ...
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... given to raising animals of an improved breed in our own county . Some of our farmers might be surprised to learn that the average yield of their cows does not exceed three or four quarts daily , taking the year through . With proper ...
... given to raising animals of an improved breed in our own county . Some of our farmers might be surprised to learn that the average yield of their cows does not exceed three or four quarts daily , taking the year through . With proper ...
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... given of the produce of those in milk , which was very large for cows of that age . Jacob Newhall , of Saugus , exhibited his fine black heifer , three years old , with a calf by her side twenty - two days old . It would have given the ...
... given of the produce of those in milk , which was very large for cows of that age . Jacob Newhall , of Saugus , exhibited his fine black heifer , three years old , with a calf by her side twenty - two days old . It would have given the ...
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... given the Committee an account of the whole product of her milk through the season , without relying on estimates and averages , this cow might possibly have come in competition with the best that were exhibited . For two year old ...
... given the Committee an account of the whole product of her milk through the season , without relying on estimates and averages , this cow might possibly have come in competition with the best that were exhibited . For two year old ...
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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