Report, Volume 1New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, 1871 - Agriculture |
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... held fairs and received benefac- tions from the state , in every county , there being six organizations . These maintained a name only for a few years . Their existence marks an era in the agricultural history of the state and becomes a ...
... held fairs and received benefac- tions from the state , in every county , there being six organizations . These maintained a name only for a few years . Their existence marks an era in the agricultural history of the state and becomes a ...
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... held in their respective counties . SECOND MEETING . The second meeting was to be held at Manchester on the 7th of September , and a minority of the board held several sessions , but transacted no business . A meeting was held at ...
... held in their respective counties . SECOND MEETING . The second meeting was to be held at Manchester on the 7th of September , and a minority of the board held several sessions , but transacted no business . A meeting was held at ...
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... held and arrangements made for meetings at such places as offered proper facilities and promised a fair attendance . On the second day , after the preliminaries of the opening , it was voted to appropriate a half hour to the ...
... held and arrangements made for meetings at such places as offered proper facilities and promised a fair attendance . On the second day , after the preliminaries of the opening , it was voted to appropriate a half hour to the ...
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... held on the 22d of December , and the following programme adopted : At ten o'clock , A. M. , Thoroughbred neat stock ; one o'clock , P. M. , Farmers ' means of mental improvement ; three o'clock , P. M. , Farm Experiences ; seven o ...
... held on the 22d of December , and the following programme adopted : At ten o'clock , A. M. , Thoroughbred neat stock ; one o'clock , P. M. , Farmers ' means of mental improvement ; three o'clock , P. M. , Farm Experiences ; seven o ...
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... held in the town of Winchester , the residence of the member of the board from Cheshire , on the 18th day of January . The meeting was not large at the hour of open- ing , but closed with a full house . The chairman of the board , Hon ...
... held in the town of Winchester , the residence of the member of the board from Cheshire , on the 18th day of January . The meeting was not large at the hour of open- ing , but closed with a full house . The chairman of the board , Hon ...
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acre Alderney animals apples applied attend fairs average Ayrshire beautiful beef better birds blood Board of Agriculture breed bushels cattle cent cheese Cheshire county Chester Clough club College compost Concord corn county fairs cows crop cultivation dairy Dartmouth College David Culver Devons disease drain drainage drought Durham early England exhibition experiments farm products farmers fertilizers fields fruit Gilmanton grade Grafton County grain grass ground Hampshire Hampshire College Hampton Falls hill horse-rakes hundred insects interest John keep farm accounts labor land less manufactures manure meeting MERRIMACK COUNTY milk Mowers Mowing-machines native neat stock oats one-half oxen pastures phosphate plants plaster plow potatoes pounds practice premiums President profit raising remedy ROCKINGHAM COUNTY Rollinsford season Secretary seed sheep Short Horns soil spring stock horses Strafford County success Superphosphates take agricultural papers thoroughbred tion town twenty vegetables wheat winter wood wool
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