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... planting , has increased the intrinsic value of a piece of land , and thereby done a perpetual service to his country . " But the importance of Agriculture , sometimes over - rated by prej- udiced minds , is a self - evident truth . I ...
... planting , has increased the intrinsic value of a piece of land , and thereby done a perpetual service to his country . " But the importance of Agriculture , sometimes over - rated by prej- udiced minds , is a self - evident truth . I ...
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... planted with the chenango potato , I have recently gathered four bushels from each of the subsoiled rows , while from the rows not subsoiled , planted side by side , and cultured and manured , in other respects , precisely similar to ...
... planted with the chenango potato , I have recently gathered four bushels from each of the subsoiled rows , while from the rows not subsoiled , planted side by side , and cultured and manured , in other respects , precisely similar to ...
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... planted with corn or potatoes , the land being much lighter for sub - soiling , harrows better , and the plant- ing and of course the hoeing is much easier . I appropriated this season an acre of land for a more careful experiment ; sub ...
... planted with corn or potatoes , the land being much lighter for sub - soiling , harrows better , and the plant- ing and of course the hoeing is much easier . I appropriated this season an acre of land for a more careful experiment ; sub ...
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... planted with carrots and beets the preceding year . I put upon it two and a half cords of stable manure , and a leach of ashes . Ploughed in the ma- nure - ploughing about five inches deep . Wed twice thoroughly , and once after haying ...
... planted with carrots and beets the preceding year . I put upon it two and a half cords of stable manure , and a leach of ashes . Ploughed in the ma- nure - ploughing about five inches deep . Wed twice thoroughly , and once after haying ...
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... planted with corn . About four cord of compost manure was then applied . It yielded about fifty bushels to the acre . In 1843 , I ploughed about nine inches deep , and put on eighteen cartloads of stable manure , and planted carrots ...
... planted with corn . About four cord of compost manure was then applied . It yielded about fifty bushels to the acre . In 1843 , I ploughed about nine inches deep , and put on eighteen cartloads of stable manure , and planted carrots ...
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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