Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society from ...Press of Foote & Brown, 1847 |
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Page 18
... taken to preserve the breed ; by crossing with the imported stock and their descendants , much may be done in time , to improve the character of our neat stock ; it is with this purpose the Trustees of the State Society have , with much ...
... taken to preserve the breed ; by crossing with the imported stock and their descendants , much may be done in time , to improve the character of our neat stock ; it is with this purpose the Trustees of the State Society have , with much ...
Page 23
... taken from her in September to the first of December , ( after which no account was kept , ) from thirteen to fourteen quarts of milk per day . Her milk is of superior quality but as I sell it at this season of the year its properties ...
... taken from her in September to the first of December , ( after which no account was kept , ) from thirteen to fourteen quarts of milk per day . Her milk is of superior quality but as I sell it at this season of the year its properties ...
Page 25
... taken into the account , in awarding the premiums . The land was flat , but little elevated above the level of the tide . The soil a black loam free from stones , and a fine ploughing field had it been dry as usual at this season , but ...
... taken into the account , in awarding the premiums . The land was flat , but little elevated above the level of the tide . The soil a black loam free from stones , and a fine ploughing field had it been dry as usual at this season , but ...
Page 39
... taken to guard against this by ploughing furrows about one rod apart . I estimate the net income of my best half acre of onions , the present year , to be not less than seventy - five dollars ; and for the whole period I have raised ...
... taken to guard against this by ploughing furrows about one rod apart . I estimate the net income of my best half acre of onions , the present year , to be not less than seventy - five dollars ; and for the whole period I have raised ...
Page 40
... taken in years past to prevent the weeds seeding upon the land ; and hence the labor of cultivation , has been much lessened . Myself , and a boy about fifteen years old , have done all the labor , excepting about twelve dollars worth ...
... taken in years past to prevent the weeds seeding upon the land ; and hence the labor of cultivation , has been much lessened . Myself , and a boy about fifteen years old , have done all the labor , excepting about twelve dollars worth ...
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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