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... MAIZE , cultivation of in Italy , 1. On the mixture of crops with , 170 . MANGEL WURZEL , excellent winter food for live stock , 193. Mode of culture , and its uses , 363 . MANUFACTURES , societies for the encouragement of , recommended ...
... MAIZE , cultivation of in Italy , 1. On the mixture of crops with , 170 . MANGEL WURZEL , excellent winter food for live stock , 193. Mode of culture , and its uses , 363 . MANUFACTURES , societies for the encouragement of , recommended ...
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... maize , 171 . Large one raised in Virginia , 308. Directions for gathering and preserving - extraordinary increase of a single one , 316. Mode of cultivating as pur- sued by R. W. ( with a cut , ) 363. Arthur Young's experiments in ...
... maize , 171 . Large one raised in Virginia , 308. Directions for gathering and preserving - extraordinary increase of a single one , 316. Mode of cultivating as pur- sued by R. W. ( with a cut , ) 363. Arthur Young's experiments in ...
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... Maize is sown in drills , and forms a superb crop hay , and pulverized walnut cake , over which boil - in appearance , and no less important , constituting ing water is poured , and bran and salt added.- the principal food of the lower ...
... Maize is sown in drills , and forms a superb crop hay , and pulverized walnut cake , over which boil - in appearance , and no less important , constituting ing water is poured , and bran and salt added.- the principal food of the lower ...
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... maize , & c . On his grounds of more inferior quality , his fallow crops should be peas , beans , & c . One crop of small grain may , unless the grounds be too poor , * succeed ach fallow crop , with grass seed sown on it . The grounds ...
... maize , & c . On his grounds of more inferior quality , his fallow crops should be peas , beans , & c . One crop of small grain may , unless the grounds be too poor , * succeed ach fallow crop , with grass seed sown on it . The grounds ...
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... maize cannot be grown : especially as a mistaken system of manage ment requires more manure than can be obtained from their old grass grounds , aided by a clover lay , It appears from the long and vigorous continua- as often as this ...
... maize cannot be grown : especially as a mistaken system of manage ment requires more manure than can be obtained from their old grass grounds , aided by a clover lay , It appears from the long and vigorous continua- as often as this ...
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