 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - New York (State) - 1849 - 1260 pages
...produce mostly beech timber, are considered as generally clayey, wet and cold. A considerable portion of the better part of the country is timbered with...the ground being only broke with a heavy harrow, and often yields, with this cultivation, upwards of twenty bushels of wheat from an acre. In a considerable... | |
 | Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan - New York (State) - 1849 - 1266 pages
...produce mostly beech timber, are considered as generally clayey, wet and cold. A considerable portion of the better part of the country is timbered with...ground without ploughing, the ground being only broke witk a heavy harrow, and often yields, with this cultivation, upwards of twenty bushels of wheat from... | |
 | James Rumsey - Steam-navigation - 1850 - 752 pages
...produce mostly beech timber, are considered as generally clayey, wet and cold. A considerable portion of the better part of the country is timbered with...the ground being only broke with a heavy harrow, and often yields, with this cultivation, upwards of twenty bushels of wheat from an acre. In a considerable... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - Wheat trade - 1909 - 264 pages
...western part of the state was said to be unsurpassed for wheat growing, as to soil and climate. i2 "Grain is frequently put into the ground without ploughing,...the ground being only broke with a heavy harrow, and often yields, with this cultivation upwards of twenty bushels of wheat per acre." Ibid., 682. See also... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - Wheat - 1909 - 270 pages
...part of the state was said to be unsurpassed for wheat growing, as to soil and climate. " "Grain IB frequently put Into the ground without ploughing,...the ground being only broke with a heavy harrow, and often yields, with this cultivation upwards of twenty bushels of wheat per acre." laid., 682. See also... | |
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... mostly timbered with oak. Where the sugar maple and basswood are most common, the land is generally esteemed best for grass, and probably for grain, and is experienced to be durable ; and lands which produce mostly beech timber, are considered as... 