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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... 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 in agriculture was ...
... 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 in agriculture was ...
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... thing . He has been very successful in his forcing - houses . He has got up something new , alto- gether different from any thing we have had in the way of hot - beds . I think he has made a great improvement in that direction . I ...
... thing . He has been very successful in his forcing - houses . He has got up something new , alto- gether different from any thing we have had in the way of hot - beds . I think he has made a great improvement in that direction . I ...
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... thing sells , but at very low figures . The price of manure ought to be lower , and the price of labor . I think Mr. Philbrick was very modest in his statement in regard to the amount of capital required in market - garden- ing . I ...
... thing sells , but at very low figures . The price of manure ought to be lower , and the price of labor . I think Mr. Philbrick was very modest in his statement in regard to the amount of capital required in market - garden- ing . I ...
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... thing to do with the potato - rot . We must have had the same peculiarities of climate and weather that we have now , as long ago as when I was a boy , when the potato - rot was unknown . I think the gentleman is entirely wrong in his ...
... thing to do with the potato - rot . We must have had the same peculiarities of climate and weather that we have now , as long ago as when I was a boy , when the potato - rot was unknown . I think the gentleman is entirely wrong in his ...
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... thing in their growth ; so that I do not think there is any force in that sug- gestion . Mr. W. C. STRONG of ... things that have been alluded to this afternoon ; but it extends through- out the whole vegetable kingdom . We shall find ...
... thing in their growth ; so that I do not think there is any force in that sug- gestion . Mr. W. C. STRONG of ... things that have been alluded to this afternoon ; but it extends through- out the whole vegetable kingdom . We shall find ...
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