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... Potato . Improved as it may have been , as late as the eighteenth century — a hundred years after its first introduction - En- glish writers speak of it as comparatively valueless . Yet the partial failure of this crop in a small part ...
... Potato . Improved as it may have been , as late as the eighteenth century — a hundred years after its first introduction - En- glish writers speak of it as comparatively valueless . Yet the partial failure of this crop in a small part ...
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... 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 the subsoiled rows , I have ...
... 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 the subsoiled rows , I have ...
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... 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 - soiled one half ...
... 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 - soiled one half ...
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... potato . They asked for beets , the blood beet , the sugar beet , and the mangel wurtzel , and they heard of their being still in existence , but few and far between . Why it is , that this luxuriant and nutritious vegetable , that a ...
... potato . They asked for beets , the blood beet , the sugar beet , and the mangel wurtzel , and they heard of their being still in existence , but few and far between . Why it is , that this luxuriant and nutritious vegetable , that a ...
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... potatoes , and manured in the usual manner , the other part of the land was manured and sowed with the seed . I transplanted them out into nursery lands at one and two years old from the seed , and budded the same season . Many of the ...
... potatoes , and manured in the usual manner , the other part of the land was manured and sowed with the seed . I transplanted them out into nursery lands at one and two years old from the seed , and budded the same season . Many of 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