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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... material , to find any thing that might be wanted . The returns , generally very poor and meagre at the best , were not thrown into an attractive form , and they consequently fell dead , so far as any influence in awakening an interest ...
... material , to find any thing that might be wanted . The returns , generally very poor and meagre at the best , were not thrown into an attractive form , and they consequently fell dead , so far as any influence in awakening an interest ...
Page 53
... materials used by the crops than has been returned , or than Nature has furnished . That is the way with the crops here in Massachusetts . Massachusetts has not a soil which will bear cropping for any length of time without putting any ...
... materials used by the crops than has been returned , or than Nature has furnished . That is the way with the crops here in Massachusetts . Massachusetts has not a soil which will bear cropping for any length of time without putting any ...
Page 72
... material taken out of the wood and leaf , and put into this form , of no sort of use to the plant itself , of no sort of use to the species , because it cannot produce seed . - - But did you ever see any plant whose flower could be made ...
... material taken out of the wood and leaf , and put into this form , of no sort of use to the plant itself , of no sort of use to the species , because it cannot produce seed . - - But did you ever see any plant whose flower could be made ...
Page 73
... material out of the wood and leaf , that is , it takes the material that would have gone to build up the individual plant . Therefore this process is an injury to the individual , and it is no benefit to the species . You see , then ...
... material out of the wood and leaf , that is , it takes the material that would have gone to build up the individual plant . Therefore this process is an injury to the individual , and it is no benefit to the species . You see , then ...
Page 122
... materials had disap- peared . There was no barn - cellar in my neighborhood when I was a boy ; and , if there had been , the value of it would not have been understood or appreciated . The common practice was , as you know , to select ...
... materials had disap- peared . There was no barn - cellar in my neighborhood when I was a boy ; and , if there had been , the value of it would not have been understood or appreciated . The common practice was , as you know , to select ...
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