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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... leaves . They next made coats of skins , showing that they had mastered the wild beasts . Then Abel became a herdsman , showing that the wild beasts had been tamed . Then we are told that Cain was a tiller of the earth , and was the ...
... leaves . They next made coats of skins , showing that they had mastered the wild beasts . Then Abel became a herdsman , showing that the wild beasts had been tamed . Then we are told that Cain was a tiller of the earth , and was the ...
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... leaves , and I used to fill my cold - frames with that compost ; and about the middle of August I would sow my spinach , the broad - leaved variety . I used to get an enormous growth : every leaf would be nearly as big as an early ...
... leaves , and I used to fill my cold - frames with that compost ; and about the middle of August I would sow my spinach , the broad - leaved variety . I used to get an enormous growth : every leaf would be nearly as big as an early ...
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... leaves , and I used to put eight or ten inches of dried leaves over the spinach . Then , of course , when I saw an appearance of rain , I used to put shutters over it . I had shutters that I used instead sashes . Of course I used sashes ...
... leaves , and I used to put eight or ten inches of dried leaves over the spinach . Then , of course , when I saw an appearance of rain , I used to put shutters over it . I had shutters that I used instead sashes . Of course I used sashes ...
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... leaves the ground in very nice condition for the coming up of the crop that is to follow . I did not intend to take ... leaf that showed any symptom or sign of smut . I had as good an onion - crop as I ever had . I think it must be ...
... leaves the ground in very nice condition for the coming up of the crop that is to follow . I did not intend to take ... leaf that showed any symptom or sign of smut . I had as good an onion - crop as I ever had . I think it must be ...
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... gas , that is , not sulphuric - acid gas , but the mildest form , — is almost a specific for mildew upon grapes . It will arrest the growth of this - — - fungus upon the leaves , and destroy it completely . 42 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
... gas , that is , not sulphuric - acid gas , but the mildest form , — is almost a specific for mildew upon grapes . It will arrest the growth of this - — - fungus upon the leaves , and destroy it completely . 42 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
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