Report, Volume 1New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, 1871 - Agriculture |
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... never met with the board , being absent in Europe . A few months later Col. Whipple , who never acted as a member , was succeeded at his own request by Capt . Thomas Coggswell , of Gilmanton , and on the resignation of Hon . Charles ...
... never met with the board , being absent in Europe . A few months later Col. Whipple , who never acted as a member , was succeeded at his own request by Capt . Thomas Coggswell , of Gilmanton , and on the resignation of Hon . Charles ...
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... never ventured to make a speech or to appear pub- licly as an agriculturist . He has had experience and been accus- tomed to observe results of experiments , and speaks from actual knowledge and proof . The paper occupied nearly an hour ...
... never ventured to make a speech or to appear pub- licly as an agriculturist . He has had experience and been accus- tomed to observe results of experiments , and speaks from actual knowledge and proof . The paper occupied nearly an hour ...
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... never seen one that would cover manure so well as shoal plowing . 8. Very few . H. R. Roberts has Durham ; Moses Roberts has Ayrshire ; advance in price in twenty years , considerably more than doubled ; within a year or more have ...
... never seen one that would cover manure so well as shoal plowing . 8. Very few . H. R. Roberts has Durham ; Moses Roberts has Ayrshire ; advance in price in twenty years , considerably more than doubled ; within a year or more have ...
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... never studied book - keeping , and thus are slow to learn the advantages resulting from such a system . PETERBOROUGH . 1. General farming , pork and dairy , by John O. Nay , Dolphon Osborn , Jasper Elliott , J. Q. Adams , S. W. and ...
... never studied book - keeping , and thus are slow to learn the advantages resulting from such a system . PETERBOROUGH . 1. General farming , pork and dairy , by John O. Nay , Dolphon Osborn , Jasper Elliott , J. Q. Adams , S. W. and ...
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... never was better probably ; potatoes and oat crop , a little below an average ; wheat is not much raised here ; great apple crop . 4. The production of beef ( grass fed ) probably ranks first with the farmers . Lumber , pail staves ...
... never was better probably ; potatoes and oat crop , a little below an average ; wheat is not much raised here ; great apple crop . 4. The production of beef ( grass fed ) probably ranks first with the farmers . Lumber , pail staves ...
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