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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... weeks to prevent " fire- fang " from violent heating . Another valuable refuse from our manufactories is the shavings and scrapings from horn or whalebone manu- factories . The best way to render these most available is to compost them ...
... weeks to prevent " fire- fang " from violent heating . Another valuable refuse from our manufactories is the shavings and scrapings from horn or whalebone manu- factories . The best way to render these most available is to compost them ...
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... weeks , and then turned under , may furnish to the soil as much fertilizing matter as eight or ten tons of ma- nure ; and the process may often be repeated two or three times in one year . For instance , if land is plowed in October and ...
... weeks , and then turned under , may furnish to the soil as much fertilizing matter as eight or ten tons of ma- nure ; and the process may often be repeated two or three times in one year . For instance , if land is plowed in October and ...
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... which will be about the middle or end of Octo- ber - the sashes need not be put on for a month or six weeks after , unless a very cold spell comes for a day or two , which sometimes happens ; but if USE AND MANAGEMENT OF COLD FRAMES . 45.
... which will be about the middle or end of Octo- ber - the sashes need not be put on for a month or six weeks after , unless a very cold spell comes for a day or two , which sometimes happens ; but if USE AND MANAGEMENT OF COLD FRAMES . 45.
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... weeks from time of planting , which is always two or three weeks sooner than that from the open ground . The average price for all planted is about $ 4 per hundred at whole- sale , so that again , with little trouble , our crop gives us ...
... weeks from time of planting , which is always two or three weeks sooner than that from the open ground . The average price for all planted is about $ 4 per hundred at whole- sale , so that again , with little trouble , our crop gives us ...
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... weeks thus cov- ered , without light ; but if the ground was not frozen when the snow fell , then the snow must be removed from the sashes in three or four days , unless the fall has been so slight that light can get through to the ...
... weeks thus cov- ered , without light ; but if the ground was not frozen when the snow fell , then the snow must be removed from the sashes in three or four days , unless the fall has been so slight that light can get through to the ...
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