Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Issue 36W. White, 1889 - Agriculture |
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... manure , wood ashes , plaster and lime ; and the most of them used manure alone to stimulate the growth of such crops as they pro- duced for home consumption and the distant markets . Their surplus products of hay and grain were fed to ...
... manure , wood ashes , plaster and lime ; and the most of them used manure alone to stimulate the growth of such crops as they pro- duced for home consumption and the distant markets . Their surplus products of hay and grain were fed to ...
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... In the year 1873 I applied a coating of green manure to four acres of the lightest p this land , that had been run for several years without ma VILITVE LIONARY livered . This tobacco crop , when packed 16 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.-
... In the year 1873 I applied a coating of green manure to four acres of the lightest p this land , that had been run for several years without ma VILITVE LIONARY livered . This tobacco crop , when packed 16 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.-
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... manure , with but little to the cotton - seed meal . But few saw the great value of the meal as a fertilizer . It did not , however , come into general use as a fertilizer , even in Hat- field , until several years later . The value of ...
... manure , with but little to the cotton - seed meal . But few saw the great value of the meal as a fertilizer . It did not , however , come into general use as a fertilizer , even in Hat- field , until several years later . The value of ...
Page 18
... manures are chiefly of animal origin . of the most important to the farmer is fine - ground sun fish . It contains about eight per cent of high - grade gen , and six per cent of phosphoric acid . Conveni form for use , it is a valuable ...
... manures are chiefly of animal origin . of the most important to the farmer is fine - ground sun fish . It contains about eight per cent of high - grade gen , and six per cent of phosphoric acid . Conveni form for use , it is a valuable ...
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... manures and liberal use of commercial Fertilizers . Commercial fertilizers are constantly growing in favor with all successful farmers of my acquaintance . To grow rops successfully for the early markets , they are highly alued ; and ...
... manures and liberal use of commercial Fertilizers . Commercial fertilizers are constantly growing in favor with all successful farmers of my acquaintance . To grow rops successfully for the early markets , they are highly alued ; and ...
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acre Amherst Analyses Analysis of Dry annual apple average Board of Agriculture Bone Boston bushels butter Calcium oxide cattle clover cob meal consumed dur corn and cob corn meal Cost of feed cost per lb cows cranberry creamery crop Crude ash cultivation dogs dollars dressed pork dressed weight gained dry matter England ensilage equal to dry Experiment Station farm farmers feed consumed FEEDING PERIODS feet Fertilizer fodder articles fruit gluten meal Grange grass Guano hundred inches Insoluble matter irrigation July land live weight gained Magnesium oxide manure Mass Massachusetts Middlesex North Moisture at 100 muriate of potash Non-nitrogenous extract matter Nutritive Ratio phosphoric acid plant food plats Potassium oxide potatoes production protein nitrogenous matter raised RAWSON scabby season Secretary seed Sept sheep skim milk Sodium oxide soil Sugar Beet Superphosphate tion Total amount weight of animal wheat bran Worcester yield
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