Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society from ...Press of Foote & Brown, 1847 |
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... importance of Agriculture , sometimes over - rated by prej- udiced minds , is a self - evident truth . I cannot , however , avoid al- lusion to an illustration which has been painfully forced upon the mind of every man during the past ...
... importance of Agriculture , sometimes over - rated by prej- udiced minds , is a self - evident truth . I cannot , however , avoid al- lusion to an illustration which has been painfully forced upon the mind of every man during the past ...
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... importance to our present purpose . Men have found out , that , if he who plants an oak , looks forward to future ages and plants for posterity ; that he who plants a fruit - tree does it for himself as well as for those who come after ...
... importance to our present purpose . Men have found out , that , if he who plants an oak , looks forward to future ages and plants for posterity ; that he who plants a fruit - tree does it for himself as well as for those who come after ...
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... important that the best breeds of cows should be sought , and no less important that they should be properly trained up and well . fed . All may well know that one good cow is worth much more than two ordinary ones , and even cows of ...
... important that the best breeds of cows should be sought , and no less important that they should be properly trained up and well . fed . All may well know that one good cow is worth much more than two ordinary ones , and even cows of ...
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... important imple- ment in English husbandry , and I now recollect no instance of the expression of a doubt of the advantages to be derived from its use ; so far from this , it is not uncommon at this time , in that country , for ...
... important imple- ment in English husbandry , and I now recollect no instance of the expression of a doubt of the advantages to be derived from its use ; so far from this , it is not uncommon at this time , in that country , for ...
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... important part of domestic duty in this county ; and though many of our farm- ers ' wives and daughters are entitled to much credit for the neat- ness , good taste , and skill which they have evinced in the management of the dairy , the ...
... important part of domestic duty in this county ; and though many of our farm- ers ' wives and daughters are entitled to much credit for the neat- ness , good taste , and skill which they have evinced in the management of the dairy , 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