First and Second Reports of the Bureau of Agriculture for the State of Tennessee: Introduction to the Resources of TennesseeTavel, Eastman & Howell, 1874 - 1193 pages |
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... Profitable quar- ries of roofing slates might be opened at a number of points within the area of this formation were they accessible by railroad . * Gneiss is simply a name for stratified granite . 1 26. THE CHILHOWEE SANDSTONE . This ...
... Profitable quar- ries of roofing slates might be opened at a number of points within the area of this formation were they accessible by railroad . * Gneiss is simply a name for stratified granite . 1 26. THE CHILHOWEE SANDSTONE . This ...
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... profitable farming depends on a knowledge of geology , how is it that I get along well and make money by farming ... profitably . It would be difficult to find a man of common sense who knows noth- ing about geology . To make my position ...
... profitable farming depends on a knowledge of geology , how is it that I get along well and make money by farming ... profitably . It would be difficult to find a man of common sense who knows noth- ing about geology . To make my position ...
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... profitable pastur- age and meadows , ought to be respected . When a geologist undertakes to instruct and benefit a farmer , he expects to do it by explaining the nature of all things with which the farmer has to deal ; and when he looks ...
... profitable pastur- age and meadows , ought to be respected . When a geologist undertakes to instruct and benefit a farmer , he expects to do it by explaining the nature of all things with which the farmer has to deal ; and when he looks ...
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... profitable to the owners and transferred from deformity to beauty by planting the locust . It grows with rapidity , and will make in ten years good posts or railroad ties . This tree rarely attains a greater size than one foot in ...
... profitable to the owners and transferred from deformity to beauty by planting the locust . It grows with rapidity , and will make in ten years good posts or railroad ties . This tree rarely attains a greater size than one foot in ...
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... profitable for the cotton planters of a neighborhood to form a co - oper- ative establishment for the purpose of extracting the oil , and then re- turn the seed - cake or refuse to the soil in place of buying costly fertilizers . The ...
... profitable for the cotton planters of a neighborhood to form a co - oper- ative establishment for the purpose of extracting the oil , and then re- turn the seed - cake or refuse to the soil in place of buying costly fertilizers . The ...
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