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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... cents a pound , eggs for eight cents a dozen . At that time the farmers sold their produce mostly at the country stores , or , I should say , exchanged it , taking their pay mostly in store goods . Now the farmer's produce sells for ...
... cents a pound , eggs for eight cents a dozen . At that time the farmers sold their produce mostly at the country stores , or , I should say , exchanged it , taking their pay mostly in store goods . Now the farmer's produce sells for ...
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... cents a head . There is a great deal of profit in raising lettuce , if you can sell it for two dollars a dozen ; but ... cent upon the amount of capital invested . I do not know that it is overdone ; but there is not near so much money ...
... cents a head . There is a great deal of profit in raising lettuce , if you can sell it for two dollars a dozen ; but ... cent upon the amount of capital invested . I do not know that it is overdone ; but there is not near so much money ...
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... cents to twenty cents per hundred . Twenty cents we considered an extreme price ; and I never realized that on a contract , except one year . There is something to be made on them at that price . Now the price has been reduced to about ...
... cents to twenty cents per hundred . Twenty cents we considered an extreme price ; and I never realized that on a contract , except one year . There is something to be made on them at that price . Now the price has been reduced to about ...
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... cents a barrel ? The CHAIRMAN . I got as much as anybody did . I found other persons did not get as much as I did , and went home perfectly satisfied . QUESTION . Did you make any money out of it ? The CHAIRMAN . I did not . QUESTION ...
... cents a barrel ? The CHAIRMAN . I got as much as anybody did . I found other persons did not get as much as I did , and went home perfectly satisfied . QUESTION . Did you make any money out of it ? The CHAIRMAN . I did not . QUESTION ...
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... cents a pound , that he had got to do something better than that . He has learned that . There is the great advantage of spe- cial fertilizers . I believe that every farmer can take his barnyard - manure , and then , if he wants a ...
... cents a pound , that he had got to do something better than that . He has learned that . There is the great advantage of spe- cial fertilizers . I believe that every farmer can take his barnyard - manure , and then , if he wants a ...
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