Report of [E. Holmes] the Secretary and Transactions of the County Agricultural Societies, for 1855: 1850-52 |
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... third acre to turnips , and one - third to carrots . There were two lots of the cabbages - on one of which were 1,452 heads , valued at 4 cents each , On the other were 1,727 at 7 cents each , Total , $ 58 08 120 89 • $ 178 97 HORACE ...
... third acre to turnips , and one - third to carrots . There were two lots of the cabbages - on one of which were 1,452 heads , valued at 4 cents each , On the other were 1,727 at 7 cents each , Total , $ 58 08 120 89 • $ 178 97 HORACE ...
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... third acre- was dressed with the same kind of compost as the cabbage , and produced two hundred and fifteen bushels on the one - third acre , weighing at the rate of 52 pounds to the bushel , as some were carted immediately from the ...
... third acre- was dressed with the same kind of compost as the cabbage , and produced two hundred and fifteen bushels on the one - third acre , weighing at the rate of 52 pounds to the bushel , as some were carted immediately from the ...
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... third premium of " Allen's Domestic Animals , " for the third best milch cow , to Jotham Perkins , jr . , of Biddeford . The first premium of $ 3 , for the best two years old heifer , to C. Moulton of Wells . The second premium of $ 2 ...
... third premium of " Allen's Domestic Animals , " for the third best milch cow , to Jotham Perkins , jr . , of Biddeford . The first premium of $ 3 , for the best two years old heifer , to C. Moulton of Wells . The second premium of $ 2 ...
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... third premium of Mason's Farrier . William Taylor of Lyman , offered an entire horse , four years old , called the " Light Foot , " a fine , active little horse ; we recommend a gratuity of $ 1.50 . Hiram Hill of Saco , offered an ...
... third premium of Mason's Farrier . William Taylor of Lyman , offered an entire horse , four years old , called the " Light Foot , " a fine , active little horse ; we recommend a gratuity of $ 1.50 . Hiram Hill of Saco , offered an ...
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... third premium on corn , not less than sixty bushels , we award to Stephen Jenkins of Eliot . Corn on not less than half an acre , the committee have awarded the first premium of $ 2 to Samuel McKenney , ( town farm , ) Saco . Second ...
... third premium on corn , not less than sixty bushels , we award to Stephen Jenkins of Eliot . Corn on not less than half an acre , the committee have awarded the first premium of $ 2 to Samuel McKenney , ( town farm , ) Saco . Second ...
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50 cents 75 cents Agricultural Society animals apples Bangor beautiful Biddeford breed Buckfield bull bushels bushels per acre butter calf calves Cape Elizabeth cattle Chairman cheese committee award compost corn crop cultivation diploma Dixfield drain England entered for premium exhibited farm farmer feet fruit Fryeburg gratuity of $1 Green handsome horse improvement inches John Joseph Kennebec Kennebec County Kennebunkport kind labor land Lewiston manufactured manure Miss mium Norway old colt old heifers old steers oxen Oxford county pair pear planted plow plum Portland potatoes pounds premium of $2 presented produce profit quince raised Readfield recommend a gratuity respectfully submitted Ribston Pippin Rumford Russet Saco Samuel second best second premium seed sheep society's first premium soil South Berwick specimen superior Sweet swine third best third premium three years old trees variety vegetable Waterville Westbrook wheat William winter Winthrop wool Yellow
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Página 844 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Página 847 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Página 60 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Página 117 - When water is heated from below, the portion first subjected to the heat rises to the surface, and every portion is successively subjected to the heat and rises, and each, having lost some of its heat at the surface, is in turn displaced. Constant motion is kept up, and a constant approximation to an equal temperature in the whole body. The application of superficial heat has no tendency to disturb the quiescence of water.
Página 635 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Página 117 - The small portion warmed expands, becomes lighter than that below, consequently retains its position on the surface, and carries no heat downwards. To ascertain the mean heat of the air at the surface of the earth, over any extended space, and for a period of eight or nine months, is no simple operation. More elements enter into such a calculation than we have space or ability to enumerate ; but we know certainly that for seven months in the year, air, at the surface of the ground, is seldom lower...
Página 122 - ... feet, and as this latter is generally one or two degrees colder than water from a contiguous well several feet below, we can hardly avoid drawing the conclusion that the cold of evaporation has considerable influence at 30 inches, a much diminished influence at 4 feet, and little or none below that depth.
Página 120 - In respect of the depth at which drains may, with a certainty of action, be placed in a soil, I pretend to assign no rule ; for there cannot, in my opinion, be a more crude or mistaken idea than that one rule of depth is applicable with equal efficiency to soils of all kinds.
Página 44 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Página 132 - Deep-drained lands never do burn. Nothing burns sooner than a few inches of soil on a very retentive clay. No land is less subject to burn than the same soil when by...