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Page 9
... keep your compost carefully , when you carry it out , scatter it and pul- verise it . " This was advice 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 ...
... keep your compost carefully , when you carry it out , scatter it and pul- verise it . " This was advice 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 ...
Page 10
... Keep your work - horses fat , " was the reply . Experience proved to him who made the inquiry , that this hint com- prehended every thing connected with good cultivation , although neither of them knew at the time , that Cato had said ...
... Keep your work - horses fat , " was the reply . Experience proved to him who made the inquiry , that this hint com- prehended every thing connected with good cultivation , although neither of them knew at the time , that Cato had said ...
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... keep soul and body together , and never find time to advance one step in the path of improvement . We are con tent to imitate the example of the elder Laird of Dumbiedikes , whose dying charge to his son you will all recollect ...
... keep soul and body together , and never find time to advance one step in the path of improvement . We are con tent to imitate the example of the elder Laird of Dumbiedikes , whose dying charge to his son you will all recollect ...
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... keeping them , in the best and most economical manner , rather than to reward them for their good fortune in being able to find and purchase those already trained , and expensively fed by others . For this reason , where there were two ...
... keeping them , in the best and most economical manner , rather than to reward them for their good fortune in being able to find and purchase those already trained , and expensively fed by others . For this reason , where there were two ...
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... keeping , during the winter , in addition to hay , I fed her with carrots to the amount of twenty - five bushels , and I also gave her four bags of shorts , during the Summer she has nothing but grass , and rather short feed . Lynn ...
... keeping , during the winter , in addition to hay , I fed her with carrots to the amount of twenty - five bushels , and I also gave her four bags of shorts , during the Summer she has nothing but grass , and rather short feed . Lynn ...
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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