Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1910 - 274 páginas |
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... grown negroes , twenty - six only were available as field laborers , the others being mechanics , house - servants , etc .; and at no time could I have controlled more than that number of hands , and few , or none , could have been ...
... grown negroes , twenty - six only were available as field laborers , the others being mechanics , house - servants , etc .; and at no time could I have controlled more than that number of hands , and few , or none , could have been ...
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... grown in a crowded state , darkness and want of air elongate the stems and leaves , at the expense of the roots and of a general healthy con- dition . The operations of thinning and hand - weeding are performed in connection with hoeing ...
... grown in a crowded state , darkness and want of air elongate the stems and leaves , at the expense of the roots and of a general healthy con- dition . The operations of thinning and hand - weeding are performed in connection with hoeing ...
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... grown in a season ; but after an interval of three or four weeks . To turn under a heavy growth properly , it must first be pressed down by a field roller or by dragging over it a heavy harrow with the teeth turned up ; and it requires ...
... grown in a season ; but after an interval of three or four weeks . To turn under a heavy growth properly , it must first be pressed down by a field roller or by dragging over it a heavy harrow with the teeth turned up ; and it requires ...
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... grown ox is considered equal to that of a horse and a half , or ten to fifteen sheep . One cord fresh cow dung weighs .... One cubic foot of old , well - rotted ox manure weighs . 66 64 66 " fresh " 66 66 66 06 66 " fresh .9,298 lbs ...
... grown ox is considered equal to that of a horse and a half , or ten to fifteen sheep . One cord fresh cow dung weighs .... One cubic foot of old , well - rotted ox manure weighs . 66 64 66 " fresh " 66 66 66 06 66 " fresh .9,298 lbs ...
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... grown and , with the leaves from surrounding forest trees , have decayed on the same low , swampy soil , the vegetable mat- ter increases so rapidly that , with the exception of that supplied by the decaying mass , very little mineral ...
... grown and , with the leaves from surrounding forest trees , have decayed on the same low , swampy soil , the vegetable mat- ter increases so rapidly that , with the exception of that supplied by the decaying mass , very little mineral ...
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Página 169 - Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.