Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society from ...Press of Foote & Brown, 1841 |
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... hundred acres , was estimated by the owner , to cost the enormous sum of thirteen hundred pounds sterling . This calculation took into consideration the use of the heavy Deanston plough which always required four , and , in some stiff ...
... hundred acres , was estimated by the owner , to cost the enormous sum of thirteen hundred pounds sterling . This calculation took into consideration the use of the heavy Deanston plough which always required four , and , in some stiff ...
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... hundred acres of heath land with this plough ; my crops have been nearly doubled , the wheat pro- duced on the land so broken up , has been fine plump grain , weighing about sixty three and a half pounds to the imperial bushel ; and it ...
... hundred acres of heath land with this plough ; my crops have been nearly doubled , the wheat pro- duced on the land so broken up , has been fine plump grain , weighing about sixty three and a half pounds to the imperial bushel ; and it ...
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... hundred dollars to be awarded in premiums for working oxen , bulls , milch cows , and heifers , and the claimants were not confined to our own county . But Essex being at the extremity of the commonwealth , there was but little ...
... hundred dollars to be awarded in premiums for working oxen , bulls , milch cows , and heifers , and the claimants were not confined to our own county . But Essex being at the extremity of the commonwealth , there was but little ...
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... hundred and twenty five dollars ' worth of milk , at five cents per quart , from the 22d of April , 1839 , to February 12 , 1840 . The present season she calved the 27th day of March . I then commenced keeping an account of her milk ...
... hundred and twenty five dollars ' worth of milk , at five cents per quart , from the 22d of April , 1839 , to February 12 , 1840 . The present season she calved the 27th day of March . I then commenced keeping an account of her milk ...
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... hundred dollars . The calf has fed entirely upon the milk of the cow . Which facts are respectfully submitted by Your obedient servant , Andover , Sept. 20 , 1840 . JOSIAH CROSBY . MR . WELLES'S LETTER , GEORGE HOOD , Esq . Dear Sir ...
... hundred dollars . The calf has fed entirely upon the milk of the cow . Which facts are respectfully submitted by Your obedient servant , Andover , Sept. 20 , 1840 . JOSIAH CROSBY . MR . WELLES'S LETTER , GEORGE HOOD , Esq . Dear Sir ...
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