Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden : Entirely New and Greatly EnlargedO. Judd Company, 1909 - 376 páginas |
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... average , sixteen hours a day , winter and sum- mer , with scarcely a day for recreation . Now , the majority of clerks , book - keepers or salesmen do not work much more than half that time , and few of them could endure this ...
... average , sixteen hours a day , winter and sum- mer , with scarcely a day for recreation . Now , the majority of clerks , book - keepers or salesmen do not work much more than half that time , and few of them could endure this ...
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... averages seven ; this number is varied in proportion , somewhat , according to the quantity of glass in use . I have generally employed more than that fully a man to an acre - but that was in consequence of having in use more than the ...
... averages seven ; this number is varied in proportion , somewhat , according to the quantity of glass in use . I have generally employed more than that fully a man to an acre - but that was in consequence of having in use more than the ...
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... average profits for the past ten years on all well cultivated market gardens in this vicinity have only been about $ 200 per acre . For the five years from 1861 to 1866 they were perhaps twice that amount ; but those were . years of ...
... average profits for the past ten years on all well cultivated market gardens in this vicinity have only been about $ 200 per acre . For the five years from 1861 to 1866 they were perhaps twice that amount ; but those were . years of ...
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... average of the past ten years , from the grounds that have been brought up to the proper standard of fertility necessary to the market garden : EXPENDITURES FOR ONE ACRE . Labor $ 480 Horse - labor 50 Manure , 75 tons .. 100 Rent 50 ...
... average of the past ten years , from the grounds that have been brought up to the proper standard of fertility necessary to the market garden : EXPENDITURES FOR ONE ACRE . Labor $ 480 Horse - labor 50 Manure , 75 tons .. 100 Rent 50 ...
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... averages from ten to thirty inches deep , overlaying a subsoil of yellow sandy loam . The next best variety is somewhat lighter soil , both in color and specific gravity , from eight to fifteen inches deep , having a similar subsoil to ...
... averages from ten to thirty inches deep , overlaying a subsoil of yellow sandy loam . The next best variety is somewhat lighter soil , both in color and specific gravity , from eight to fifteen inches deep , having a similar subsoil to ...
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