Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan, for the Year ...John A. Kerr & Company, printers to the State, 1865 |
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... bushels per acre ; wheat 12 to 15 ; potatoes 100. I think there has been no decrease in productiveness . White wheat ... bushel . Peaches are raised to some extent ; prices very fluctuating . Root crops are not much cultivated . I think ...
... bushels per acre ; wheat 12 to 15 ; potatoes 100. I think there has been no decrease in productiveness . White wheat ... bushel . Peaches are raised to some extent ; prices very fluctuating . Root crops are not much cultivated . I think ...
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... bushel . Marsh hay , from $ 2.50 to . $ 10 per ton ; tame hay , $ 5 to $ 12 ; it is now $ 16 to $ 20 . Tame hay costs [ per acre ] one - third as much as wheat , and about half as much as corn . Of wheat , about seven - eighths is sold ...
... bushel . Marsh hay , from $ 2.50 to . $ 10 per ton ; tame hay , $ 5 to $ 12 ; it is now $ 16 to $ 20 . Tame hay costs [ per acre ] one - third as much as wheat , and about half as much as corn . Of wheat , about seven - eighths is sold ...
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... bushels to the acre is a fair crop , but I have known 1,200 to be grown . 6. Beyond the different kinds of stock actually required in the management of a farm , sheep are the most profitable . 7. The price of beef during the last ten ...
... bushels to the acre is a fair crop , but I have known 1,200 to be grown . 6. Beyond the different kinds of stock actually required in the management of a farm , sheep are the most profitable . 7. The price of beef during the last ten ...
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... bushels more to the acre than from broadcast sowing . Broadcast sowers for clover and timothy seed are used to great advantage . 18. Revolving and wheel horse - rakes are much used . The wheel - rake works easier , and does the work ...
... bushels more to the acre than from broadcast sowing . Broadcast sowers for clover and timothy seed are used to great advantage . 18. Revolving and wheel horse - rakes are much used . The wheel - rake works easier , and does the work ...
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... bushels per acre ; now twelve to fifteen . Corn , at first , sixty bushels per acre ; now forty . This decrease I attribute to the constant wear of the soil , without rest or seeding . For years almost our only variety of wheat was that ...
... bushels per acre ; now twelve to fifteen . Corn , at first , sixty bushels per acre ; now forty . This decrease I attribute to the constant wear of the soil , without rest or seeding . For years almost our only variety of wheat was that ...
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9 P. M. Mean Agricultural Society animals annual Ayrshire Ayrshire cattle BAROMETER HEIGHT REDUCED BARRY COUNTY beef Berkshire better Boarding Hall breed broadcast sowing bushels bushels per acre C. A. Kenaston cattle CENTAGE OF SATURATION cents cheese clover corn cows cultivation dairy Day of Month diarrhoea disease drill and broadcast drilled wheat ergot experiments farm farmers fatten favorable fleece FORCE OR PRESSURE FREEZING POINT GENESEE COUNTY ground harrow HEIGHT REDUCED FORCE horses important improvement INCHES John Gamgee KALAMAZOO COUNTY Kedzie labor land MACOMB COUNTY manure Merino milk OTTAWA COUNTY P. M. Mean plant pleuro-pneumonia ploughed plow pork portion pounds premiums produced profitable quantity receipts regard roots S. S. Rockwell Salary season Secretary seed serous membranes sheep soil sold sown broadcast swine symptoms T. C. Abbot Thermometer tion varieties various weight winter wheat wool yield