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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... field . This county has three agricultural societies . The Middle- sex has held its eighty - fourth exhibition , and is the oldest county society in Massachusetts , and holds its exhibitions at Concord ; the Middlesex North at Lowell ...
... field . This county has three agricultural societies . The Middle- sex has held its eighty - fourth exhibition , and is the oldest county society in Massachusetts , and holds its exhibitions at Concord ; the Middlesex North at Lowell ...
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... field planting are lettuce , early cabbage , egg- plants , tomatoes , celery , melons , summer squashes ; and some gardeners also start their beets and onions under glass , to be transplanted to the field ; which leads us to describe ...
... field planting are lettuce , early cabbage , egg- plants , tomatoes , celery , melons , summer squashes ; and some gardeners also start their beets and onions under glass , to be transplanted to the field ; which leads us to describe ...
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... field plants , marketing them in March , April , or May . After the field plants have been removed from the hot - beds , in April or May , and the lettuce or radishes sold , it is cus- tomary to employ the whole of the glass upon ...
... field plants , marketing them in March , April , or May . After the field plants have been removed from the hot - beds , in April or May , and the lettuce or radishes sold , it is cus- tomary to employ the whole of the glass upon ...
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... field . When handled in this way it does not heat excessively , and makes a manure that cannot be excelled for forcing a rapid growth of vegetables . The tools used for market - gardening are some of them not much known elsewhere ; the ...
... field . When handled in this way it does not heat excessively , and makes a manure that cannot be excelled for forcing a rapid growth of vegetables . The tools used for market - gardening are some of them not much known elsewhere ; the ...
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... field , in dry weather . Weeds have little chance to be very troublesome in a well ordered garden . The continual hoeing and ploughing kill the few that come up , and no skilful gardener will suffer them to go to seed on his land , and ...
... field , in dry weather . Weeds have little chance to be very troublesome in a well ordered garden . The continual hoeing and ploughing kill the few that come up , and no skilful gardener will suffer them to go to seed on his land , and ...
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