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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... seed in the case of the potato , that the cause of fungus in hot - beds is too much moisture , with too little ven- tilation . But I ought not and do not undertake to instruct these gardeners in the management of their hot - beds ...
... seed in the case of the potato , that the cause of fungus in hot - beds is too much moisture , with too little ven- tilation . But I ought not and do not undertake to instruct these gardeners in the management of their hot - beds ...
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... seed was sown . I have seen it done even as long ago as when I was a boy . Mr. WARE . I have had no experience in that particular . Mr. HILL of Arlington . I heard Mr. Ware's lecture last winter , when he made the same statement that he ...
... seed was sown . I have seen it done even as long ago as when I was a boy . Mr. WARE . I have had no experience in that particular . Mr. HILL of Arlington . I heard Mr. Ware's lecture last winter , when he made the same statement that he ...
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... seed to the acre , would have said that I should have had nothing but small onions . I rather thought so myself . It was an accident that I came to sow them in that way . I lent my seed - sower to a neighbor , and , after he returned it ...
... seed to the acre , would have said that I should have had nothing but small onions . I rather thought so myself . It was an accident that I came to sow them in that way . I lent my seed - sower to a neighbor , and , after he returned it ...
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... seed did your neighbor use ? The CHAIRMAN . He sowed the same kind of seed . I got the seed for him . His was sown too thick , but not so thick as the first of mine . The first quarter of an acre of mine was a good deal thicker than the ...
... seed did your neighbor use ? The CHAIRMAN . He sowed the same kind of seed . I got the seed for him . His was sown too thick , but not so thick as the first of mine . The first quarter of an acre of mine was a good deal thicker than the ...
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... seed three or four deep , it will throw them all up as big as your fist , one on the top of the other . If that nine pounds of seed had not found any more manure underneath it than most of us usually put in the ground , he would have ...
... seed three or four deep , it will throw them all up as big as your fist , one on the top of the other . If that nine pounds of seed had not found any more manure underneath it than most of us usually put in the ground , he would have ...
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