Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 38, Part 1890W. White, 1891 - Agriculture |
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... raising is carried on only to a very limited extent , farmers preferring to supply their dairies by purchasing cows . By the census from which I have already quoted , the value of the dairy products produced was $ 209,336 ; hay ...
... raising is carried on only to a very limited extent , farmers preferring to supply their dairies by purchasing cows . By the census from which I have already quoted , the value of the dairy products produced was $ 209,336 ; hay ...
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... raising wheat year after year , putting nothing back upon the soil , but dumping their manure into the canal or burning it , anything to get rid of it . Then about the year 1850 we find this inexhaustible fertility " that they talked ...
... raising wheat year after year , putting nothing back upon the soil , but dumping their manure into the canal or burning it , anything to get rid of it . Then about the year 1850 we find this inexhaustible fertility " that they talked ...
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... raise twenty , thirty or forty bushels of wheat to the acre , or I will say thirty bushels per acre , year after year , without any thought or care except to plough the ground , sow the seed and gather the crop , then there would be no ...
... raise twenty , thirty or forty bushels of wheat to the acre , or I will say thirty bushels per acre , year after year , without any thought or care except to plough the ground , sow the seed and gather the crop , then there would be no ...
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... raising of crops . Next they endeavored to find substitutes for barnyard manure . They commenced with the use of bones and other substances like the Spanish rock , coprolites , etc. , which contain a large proportion of phosphate of ...
... raising of crops . Next they endeavored to find substitutes for barnyard manure . They commenced with the use of bones and other substances like the Spanish rock , coprolites , etc. , which contain a large proportion of phosphate of ...
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... raise a given crop ; but it is possible , by the simple methods of milk analysis , now so numerous , for almost every one , with a little care and experience , to make very accurate determinations of the butter value of milk , both of ...
... raise a given crop ; but it is possible , by the simple methods of milk analysis , now so numerous , for almost every one , with a little care and experience , to make very accurate determinations of the butter value of milk , both of ...
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