Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 25W. White, 1878 - Agriculture Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College. |
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... acre every year . It keeps a two- horse team going every day to draw the manure used on some gardens of not over twelve acres ; and the produce on some of these gardens will average one thousand dollars per acre per year , for the whole ...
... acre every year . It keeps a two- horse team going every day to draw the manure used on some gardens of not over twelve acres ; and the produce on some of these gardens will average one thousand dollars per acre per year , for the whole ...
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... acre is often profit- ably employed , invested in buildings , teams , tools , hot - beds , manure , & c .; and the force on such gardens is about one horse to every three acres of land , and in summer , one hand to every acre . On the ...
... acre is often profit- ably employed , invested in buildings , teams , tools , hot - beds , manure , & c .; and the force on such gardens is about one horse to every three acres of land , and in summer , one hand to every acre . On the ...
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... acre . To apply this amount of water with an 11 - inch hose and a head of 40 feet would require about seven hours . If a inch hose were used with the same head it would require about six times as long to apply the same quantity . Where ...
... acre . To apply this amount of water with an 11 - inch hose and a head of 40 feet would require about seven hours . If a inch hose were used with the same head it would require about six times as long to apply the same quantity . Where ...
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... sell well , sometimes they do not . I think there is very little money to be made in raising early cabbages , and putting on fifteen or twenty cords of manure to the acre , and selling them at two DISCUSSION ON MARKET - GARDENING . 35.
... sell well , sometimes they do not . I think there is very little money to be made in raising early cabbages , and putting on fifteen or twenty cords of manure to the acre , and selling them at two DISCUSSION ON MARKET - GARDENING . 35.
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Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture. manure to the acre , and selling them at two cents a head . There is a great deal of profit in raising lettuce , if you can sell it for two dollars a dozen ; but the trouble is to find any- body ...
Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture. manure to the acre , and selling them at two cents a head . There is a great deal of profit in raising lettuce , if you can sell it for two dollars a dozen ; but the trouble is to find any- body ...
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