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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... produce the finest crops - methods that we believe to be superior to those in general use in private gardens , and which may , with profit , be followed . Our estimates of labor , I trust , will not be overlooked ; for I know it is no ...
... produce the finest crops - methods that we believe to be superior to those in general use in private gardens , and which may , with profit , be followed . Our estimates of labor , I trust , will not be overlooked ; for I know it is no ...
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... produce is very va- riable . It not infrequently happens that , from scar- city or an unusual demand , there will be a differ- ence of $ 15 or $ 20 per load , even in one day ; hence , if near a market , larger quantities can be thrown ...
... produce is very va- riable . It not infrequently happens that , from scar- city or an unusual demand , there will be a differ- ence of $ 15 or $ 20 per load , even in one day ; hence , if near a market , larger quantities can be thrown ...
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... producing early crops , and if a position can be found where the wind is broken off by woods or hills to the north or northwest , such a situation would be very desirable . In the absence of this we find it necessary to protect , at ...
... producing early crops , and if a position can be found where the wind is broken off by woods or hills to the north or northwest , such a situation would be very desirable . In the absence of this we find it necessary to protect , at ...
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... producing good crops of Corn , Wheat , or Potatoes , or where the meadows give two or three tons of Hay to the acre , it is reasonable to expect that land on the same level as that in question will be of similar quality . But should the ...
... producing good crops of Corn , Wheat , or Potatoes , or where the meadows give two or three tons of Hay to the acre , it is reasonable to expect that land on the same level as that in question will be of similar quality . But should the ...
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... produce the heavy crops seen in our market gardens . Of stable or barn - yard manure , from fifty to one hundred tons per acre is used , and prepared , for at least six months previously , by thoroughly turning and breaking up to ...
... produce the heavy crops seen in our market gardens . Of stable or barn - yard manure , from fifty to one hundred tons per acre is used , and prepared , for at least six months previously , by thoroughly turning and breaking up to ...
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