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... 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 tak- en but three bushels . There is a difference of twenty - five per ...
... 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 tak- en but three bushels . There is a difference of twenty - five per ...
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... rows together , which yielded four and one - half bushels to the square rod - or at the rate of 720 bushels to the acre . Had it not been for the weeds and the wind , I know no reason why the entire lot would not have yielded in the ...
... rows together , which yielded four and one - half bushels to the square rod - or at the rate of 720 bushels to the acre . Had it not been for the weeds and the wind , I know no reason why the entire lot would not have yielded in the ...
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... rows , sev- eral feet in extent . They operate in the night time , and the only way to prevent it , is to hunt for them , and destroy them . I have known fields entirely destroyed by this worm . My mode of management has been much the ...
... rows , sev- eral feet in extent . They operate in the night time , and the only way to prevent it , is to hunt for them , and destroy them . I have known fields entirely destroyed by this worm . My mode of management has been much the ...
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... rows , in different parts of the piece without selection , and when dried , were weighed , the rows in the whole piece were counted and multiplied by the mean weight of one row resulting as follows ; upon 147 rods of land there were ...
... rows , in different parts of the piece without selection , and when dried , were weighed , the rows in the whole piece were counted and multiplied by the mean weight of one row resulting as follows ; upon 147 rods of land there were ...
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... rows , fourteen inches apart , the lot was sixteen rods long , and contained 78 rows . I sowed half a pound of seed of the short horn carrot . Wed them twice . Pulled the carrots , without any use of shovel or spade . I had six hundred ...
... rows , fourteen inches apart , the lot was sixteen rods long , and contained 78 rows . I sowed half a pound of seed of the short horn carrot . Wed them twice . Pulled the carrots , without any use of shovel or spade . I had six hundred ...
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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