Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 2W. White, 1855 - 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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... fields were utterly ruined . It was time now , in the month of May , for the drought to take its turn in the work of destruction , and it set in with ter rible severity , even before there had been rain enough to settle the ground after ...
... fields were utterly ruined . It was time now , in the month of May , for the drought to take its turn in the work of destruction , and it set in with ter rible severity , even before there had been rain enough to settle the ground after ...
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... field adjoining . The forests , moreover , play a much more prominent part in producing rains than most persons , at first sight , would sup- pose . This is particularly the case when they stand on hills . and elevated ground ; in such ...
... field adjoining . The forests , moreover , play a much more prominent part in producing rains than most persons , at first sight , would sup- pose . This is particularly the case when they stand on hills . and elevated ground ; in such ...
Page 65
... field is level , it is sufficient to fill the drain or ditch , and keep it filled till the soil is moistened ; but ... field with hol- lows , nor a field broken with steep rising ground , is proper ; the first , because it retains too ...
... field is level , it is sufficient to fill the drain or ditch , and keep it filled till the soil is moistened ; but ... field with hol- lows , nor a field broken with steep rising ground , is proper ; the first , because it retains too ...
Page 68
... fields , nine inches deep . F.'s oats weighed thirty pounds per bushel , while C.'s weighed but seventeen pounds ... field . No farmer should be without one . It will more than pay for itself the first season . " The same testimony ...
... fields , nine inches deep . F.'s oats weighed thirty pounds per bushel , while C.'s weighed but seventeen pounds ... field . No farmer should be without one . It will more than pay for itself the first season . " The same testimony ...
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... field of corn this year , on light soil , ploughed , as deep as I could well plough , with a double or Michigan ... fields are the first to suffer by droughts . " Another practical farmer in Worcester County writes , " The drought has ...
... field of corn this year , on light soil , ploughed , as deep as I could well plough , with a double or Michigan ... fields are the first to suffer by droughts . " Another practical farmer in Worcester County writes , " The drought has ...
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Page 139 - O'er mount and vale, where never summer ray Glanced, till the strong tornado broke his way Through the gray giants of the sylvan wild ; Yet many a sheltered glade, with blossoms gay. Beneath the showery sky and sunshine mild, Within the shaggy arms of that dark forest smiled XXX.
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Page 155 - ... for the men, and Indian meal for the oxen. Some beans, tea, and molasses, are added. Formerly hogsheads of rum were considered indispensable, and I have before me a bill of supplies for a logging concern of three teams in 1827-28, in which I find one hundred and eighty gallons of rum charged.
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Page 155 - ... that is, most hands are required when the distance is shortest, because the oxen, returning more frequently, require their loads to be prepared more expeditiously. Having built their camps, or while building them, the main roads are to be cut out. These run from the camps to the landing places, or some stream of sufficient size to float down the logs on the spring freshet. Other roads are cut to other clumps of timber. They are made by cutting and clearing away the underbrush, and such trees...
Page 160 - Very frequently he is obliged to make one contract to have the timber cut and hauled to the landing-places, and another to have it run down ; for the river drivers are a distinct class from the lumberers. Most of them, indeed, are lumberers ; yet it is but a small part of the lumberers that are river drivers. A great part of the lumberers are farmers, who must be on their farms at the season of driving, and therefore cannot undertake anything but the cutting and hauling.
Page 157 - ... trees that cover the low lands adjoining the river, and breaking up jams that form in narrow or shallow places. A jam is caused by obstacles in the river catching some of the sticks, which in their turn catch others coming down ; and so the mass increases until a solid dam is formed, which entirely stops up the river and prevents the further passage of any logs. These dams are most frequently formed at the top of some fall ¡and it is often a service that requires much skill and boldness, and...