Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1883 - 270 páginas |
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... Crates . Barrels . Boxes . Barrels . 105,739 27,572 69,379 50,787 12,696 2,519 205,209 2,723 907 67,113 24,472 7,956 13,033 4,132 630 445 45,906 9,837 174 14,773 185,130 48,854 | 94,972 4,045 333,001 The season's shipment of melons to ...
... Crates . Barrels . Boxes . Barrels . 105,739 27,572 69,379 50,787 12,696 2,519 205,209 2,723 907 67,113 24,472 7,956 13,033 4,132 630 445 45,906 9,837 174 14,773 185,130 48,854 | 94,972 4,045 333,001 The season's shipment of melons to ...
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... $ 1.00 $ 0.75 1 c . 1 c . 1 c . 1 c . Three baskets fill four crates . When boys and girls are hired the pay is at half rate per day . A few of the most efficient and trustworthy hands , 8 TRUCK - FARMING AT THE SOUTH .
... $ 1.00 $ 0.75 1 c . 1 c . 1 c . 1 c . Three baskets fill four crates . When boys and girls are hired the pay is at half rate per day . A few of the most efficient and trustworthy hands , 8 TRUCK - FARMING AT THE SOUTH .
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... crate additional for packing cucumbers and tomatoes ; while others use the gang of day laborers for the purpose , depending upon their per- sonal supervision to prevent injudicious gathering . For cutting hay with scythes , men are ...
... crate additional for packing cucumbers and tomatoes ; while others use the gang of day laborers for the purpose , depending upon their per- sonal supervision to prevent injudicious gathering . For cutting hay with scythes , men are ...
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... crates , etc. , clean and bright , and well and symmetrically made , neatness being very important . The matter next in ... crate should bulge up beyond the level , so that force will be required to press on the head or cover . A slight ...
... crates , etc. , clean and bright , and well and symmetrically made , neatness being very important . The matter next in ... crate should bulge up beyond the level , so that force will be required to press on the head or cover . A slight ...
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... crate should not be far enough apart to allow their edges to indent or cut such vegetables as to- matoes , cucumbers , etc. , and yet be sufficiently distant to ventilate the ... CRATES . A bushel crate requires a PACKING AND MARKETS . 91.
... crate should not be far enough apart to allow their edges to indent or cut such vegetables as to- matoes , cucumbers , etc. , and yet be sufficiently distant to ventilate the ... CRATES . A bushel crate requires a PACKING AND MARKETS . 91.
Términos y frases comunes
Acid Phosphate acre ammonia applied asparagus barrel beetles Bone Bruchus bushels cabbage carbonic acid cauliflower cents Charleston Chemical Chuck-will's-widow cold frames commence compost contain cotton seed covered cow pea crate crop cucumber cultivation cut-worms destroyed dollars drill dung early eggs farmer feet fermentation fertility Florida four frost fruit gardener germination green ground grow growers grown growth guano heat heavy hundred inches injury insects kainit land larva larvæ leaves lime mature melon moist moisture mulch nitrogen Northern markets onions packed Paris green pea vines Peruvian guano phosphoric acid plant food plow Plusia potash potato pounds produce quantity rain roots rows salts sandy Savannah season shipment soil soluble South sowing sown species sprouts squash stable manure stems strawberry sufficient sulphate superphosphate supply surface therm thousand tion tomato transplanting truck-farmer varieties vegetable matter warm weather weeds wind N. W. winter worm