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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Page 14
... varieties of grain , fruits , and vegetables , and can determine for them- selves which are the best and most desirable to have ; and at no other place can there be found the same convenience for comparison as at a good agricultural ...
... varieties of grain , fruits , and vegetables , and can determine for them- selves which are the best and most desirable to have ; and at no other place can there be found the same convenience for comparison as at a good agricultural ...
Page 38
... varieties of fungus most of the time ; and when the conditions are right for the propagation of those seeds , then they take hold , and grow . That , to my mind , is the cause of the potato - rot . Sometimes it affects the early crop ...
... varieties of fungus most of the time ; and when the conditions are right for the propagation of those seeds , then they take hold , and grow . That , to my mind , is the cause of the potato - rot . Sometimes it affects the early crop ...
Page 41
... varieties of fungi , and that peculiar variety which produces the potato - rot very likely had not been introduced into this country at that time . With regard to the crop of potatoes , where one part was planted with tobacco , and the ...
... varieties of fungi , and that peculiar variety which produces the potato - rot very likely had not been introduced into this country at that time . With regard to the crop of potatoes , where one part was planted with tobacco , and the ...
Page 66
... varieties . Now , Darwin says , that taking these germs , with these two characteristics , — first , of reproducing their kind ; and , second , of variation , and giving them time enough , Nature has worked out all these results which ...
... varieties . Now , Darwin says , that taking these germs , with these two characteristics , — first , of reproducing their kind ; and , second , of variation , and giving them time enough , Nature has worked out all these results which ...
Page 69
... varieties of both , and you know that you can produce other thousands . I would like to know if any man ever heard of an apple - tree developing in the line of beauty ; that is , developing its flowers so that they became large and ...
... varieties of both , and you know that you can produce other thousands . I would like to know if any man ever heard of an apple - tree developing in the line of beauty ; that is , developing its flowers so that they became large and ...
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