Report, Volume 5New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, 1875 - Agriculture |
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... potatoes and heavier oats and other grains than can be harvest- ed in the lower counties . Even stock , though not prized as high as in Cheshire and Hillsborough counties , yields us a good income , as much of it is sold young , and ...
... potatoes and heavier oats and other grains than can be harvest- ed in the lower counties . Even stock , though not prized as high as in Cheshire and Hillsborough counties , yields us a good income , as much of it is sold young , and ...
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... potatoes , corn and beans gave him an income of $ 325 on the cost of $ 100 . Some of the farmers took issue , and intimated that he only guessed at it . He said farmers don't all work as mechanics do , and are not systematic in their ...
... potatoes , corn and beans gave him an income of $ 325 on the cost of $ 100 . Some of the farmers took issue , and intimated that he only guessed at it . He said farmers don't all work as mechanics do , and are not systematic in their ...
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... potatoes for less than fifty cents a bushel , and have no Western competition . The best varieties are the Early and Late Rose , as they yield well and bring a high price in market . Amos Fletcher of Nashua endorsed the secretary's ...
... potatoes for less than fifty cents a bushel , and have no Western competition . The best varieties are the Early and Late Rose , as they yield well and bring a high price in market . Amos Fletcher of Nashua endorsed the secretary's ...
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... potatoes , and buy corn . Dea . Holt of Francestown took the old ground of growing corn and making butter , and he showed that he could do both , and much more . He had grown corn for twenty - five cents a bushel ; from seven cows he ...
... potatoes , and buy corn . Dea . Holt of Francestown took the old ground of growing corn and making butter , and he showed that he could do both , and much more . He had grown corn for twenty - five cents a bushel ; from seven cows he ...
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... potatoes as its lead- ing harvests . To discuss the cultivation of these crops with others , the board held a meeting in the town hall , on the sixth of January . The meeting was called to order by Hon . Moses Humphrey , president of ...
... potatoes as its lead- ing harvests . To discuss the cultivation of these crops with others , the board held a meeting in the town hall , on the sixth of January . The meeting was called to order by Hon . Moses Humphrey , president of ...
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Page 213 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Page 213 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a wellgoverned Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 91 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 213 - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Page 257 - From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad. Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, — "An honest man's the noblest work of God;" And, certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind.
Page 212 - Such a mighty power did the squirmers wield O'er the goodly men of old Derryfield, It was often said that their only care, And their only wish, and their only prayer, For the present world and the world to come, Was a string of eels and a jug of rum I Oh the eel, the eel, the squirming eel, What a lovely phase does his life reveal!
Page 257 - O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile; Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their...
Page 321 - ... years that have since elapsed, 1867 is the only one which has failed to witness the founding of one or more similar institutions in Germany or the neighboring countries. The experiment station shortly came to be regarded not as a costly embellishment, or an agricultural luxury, in which universities or wealthy gentlemen might harmlessly indulge, but as a most remunerative and most necessary agency for the use as well as for the education of farmers.
Page 4 - Printer on or before the 15th day of October in each year, and the Public Printer shall cause said reports to be printed with an accurate and comprehensive index thereof, on or before the first Monday in December in each year, for the use of Congress.
Page 146 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.