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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... ploughed under . The manure applied in spring is worked as fine as possible so as to be available at once for plant ... ploughing is practised . Many of them run a subsoil plough after the common large plough every second year , to ...
... ploughed under . The manure applied in spring is worked as fine as possible so as to be available at once for plant ... ploughing is practised . Many of them run a subsoil plough after the common large plough every second year , to ...
Page 32
... ploughing , and then ploughed , harrowed , and rolled again . The roller is an indispensable tool in the garden , and is most useful in packing the surface of the soil just enough to prevent exces- sive evaporation in time of drouth ...
... ploughing , and then ploughed , harrowed , and rolled again . The roller is an indispensable tool in the garden , and is most useful in packing the surface of the soil just enough to prevent exces- sive evaporation in time of drouth ...
Page 46
... ploughed about three - quarters of an acre that had been lying four years without any manure , badly run out , neither grassed over nor weeded over . I ploughed it about the first of August , rolled it , harrowed it pretty thoroughly ...
... ploughed about three - quarters of an acre that had been lying four years without any manure , badly run out , neither grassed over nor weeded over . I ploughed it about the first of August , rolled it , harrowed it pretty thoroughly ...
Page 122
... ploughed lands . It was , in most cases , very poor manure at that , manure that was coarse , that was full of the butts of cornstalks , that had lain leaching under the eaves of the barn for months , until all the soluble materials had ...
... ploughed lands . It was , in most cases , very poor manure at that , manure that was coarse , that was full of the butts of cornstalks , that had lain leaching under the eaves of the barn for months , until all the soluble materials had ...
Page 143
... The point is , that money spent in improving our grass- land is more judiciously and wisely spent than it is in put- ting it all into our ploughed lands . Nothing is better settled than that the grass - crop IMPROVEMENT OF PASTURES . 143.
... The point is , that money spent in improving our grass- land is more judiciously and wisely spent than it is in put- ting it all into our ploughed lands . Nothing is better settled than that the grass - crop IMPROVEMENT OF PASTURES . 143.
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