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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... season , asking how they can make their lands available for garden purposes . The majority of these are city mer- chants who , for investment or in anticipation of a ru- ral retreat in the autumn of their days , have pur- chased a ...
... season , asking how they can make their lands available for garden purposes . The majority of these are city mer- chants who , for investment or in anticipation of a ru- ral retreat in the autumn of their days , have pur- chased a ...
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... season in different depart ments of horticulture - perhaps more in the culture of fruits than of vegetables . I have no doubt that thou- sands of acres are annually planted , that in three years afterwards are abandoned , and the golden ...
... season in different depart ments of horticulture - perhaps more in the culture of fruits than of vegetables . I have no doubt that thou- sands of acres are annually planted , that in three years afterwards are abandoned , and the golden ...
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... season rarely pays more than current expenses , and the capital of $ 300 per acre is all absorbed in horses , wagons , glass , manures , etc. If the capital be insufficient to procure these prop- erly , the chance of success is ...
... season rarely pays more than current expenses , and the capital of $ 300 per acre is all absorbed in horses , wagons , glass , manures , etc. If the capital be insufficient to procure these prop- erly , the chance of success is ...
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... season , one marketed in mid - summer , another in fall and winter , a large and continued amount of labor is required . On lands within a short distance of market - say two miles- two horses are sufficient ; but when double that ...
... season , one marketed in mid - summer , another in fall and winter , a large and continued amount of labor is required . On lands within a short distance of market - say two miles- two horses are sufficient ; but when double that ...
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... season , yielded a handsome profit , while with others , the labor of years , and the expenditure of large sums in extra manuring and draining , have never been able to bring these uncongenial soils up to the proper standard of ...
... season , yielded a handsome profit , while with others , the labor of years , and the expenditure of large sums in extra manuring and draining , have never been able to bring these uncongenial soils up to the proper standard of ...
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