Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1869 |
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... season , and in all parts of the country . New England felt the impulse slightly in the spring sowing , though the eastern crop scarcely affects the grand aggregate . The increase was mainly in win- ter wheat , except in Minnesota ...
... season , and in all parts of the country . New England felt the impulse slightly in the spring sowing , though the eastern crop scarcely affects the grand aggregate . The increase was mainly in win- ter wheat , except in Minnesota ...
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... season of ripening , resulting in a loss of one - third of the expected crop in the principal corn - growing section . of the Union - the Ohio valley . The aggregate yield of the year was less by 250,000,000 bushels than should have ...
... season of ripening , resulting in a loss of one - third of the expected crop in the principal corn - growing section . of the Union - the Ohio valley . The aggregate yield of the year was less by 250,000,000 bushels than should have ...
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... season of picking , concerning the probable yield of the year . Estimates will inevitably appear in business letters and circulars , and in the news journals of the day ; and it is of the utmost importance that judicious estimates ...
... season of picking , concerning the probable yield of the year . Estimates will inevitably appear in business letters and circulars , and in the news journals of the day ; and it is of the utmost importance that judicious estimates ...
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... season of panic , and occasioned heavy local losses at points of reshipment in Kansas , Missouri , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , and to a smaller extent eastward to the Atlantic coast . Abortion has been somewhat prevalent on dairy farms ...
... season of panic , and occasioned heavy local losses at points of reshipment in Kansas , Missouri , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , and to a smaller extent eastward to the Atlantic coast . Abortion has been somewhat prevalent on dairy farms ...
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... season at least , " fully twenty per cent . die in the latter part of the winter and early spring from poverty . " It is grati- fying to remark , amid the general neglect of this latitude , that in one county in Georgia " those that ...
... season at least , " fully twenty per cent . die in the latter part of the winter and early spring from poverty . " It is grati- fying to remark , amid the general neglect of this latitude , that in one county in Georgia " those that ...
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Página 234 - ... to the crop. The advantage, therefore, of large sets remains practically unimpaired. Sixthly : Weight for weight, cut sets produce as nearly as possible the same weight per acre as whole potatoes ; but for the reasons given above, the weight of the sets should not be reduced by subdivision. Seventhly : Smaller sets give a larger produce, in proportion to their weight, than the larger sets, Eighthly : When the intervals between the sets in the rows are diminished to less than a foot, the...
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Página 178 - Potatoes succeeded at the latter place, though the tubers were small. They were regularly planted for several years until the seed was lost by freezing during the winter. At St. Michael's they did not do well. Salad was successful; but cabbages would not head. The white round turnips grown at St. Michael's were the best I ever saw anywhere, and very large, many of them weighing five or six pounds.
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