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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... nearly all " oak openings . " 2. The principal crops are wheat , corn and hay . Average wheat 15 bush . per acre ; corn 35 ; marsh hay 11⁄2 tons ; " tame hay , " for the first ten years 1 ton ; since then 11. On good land , well ...
... nearly all " oak openings . " 2. The principal crops are wheat , corn and hay . Average wheat 15 bush . per acre ; corn 35 ; marsh hay 11⁄2 tons ; " tame hay , " for the first ten years 1 ton ; since then 11. On good land , well ...
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... nearly all the usual kinds , and by the aid of them manual labor has been lessened so much that one man with these implements can perform the labor of three men without them , on farms in general . The Howard Mower and Reaper , the ...
... nearly all the usual kinds , and by the aid of them manual labor has been lessened so much that one man with these implements can perform the labor of three men without them , on farms in general . The Howard Mower and Reaper , the ...
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... nearly every variety of soil and timber . 2. The principal crops are wheat and corn . There has been a decrease of the former , owing chiefly to the ravages of the midge , and an increase of the latter . 4. Apples are the principal ...
... nearly every variety of soil and timber . 2. The principal crops are wheat and corn . There has been a decrease of the former , owing chiefly to the ravages of the midge , and an increase of the latter . 4. Apples are the principal ...
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... nearly fifty per cent . , and doing much to ward off the attacks of the Hessian fly . 23. Plaster ( gypsum , ) is used extensively as a top - dressing for clover - in a dry season increasing its growth fully one hundred per cent . It is ...
... nearly fifty per cent . , and doing much to ward off the attacks of the Hessian fly . 23. Plaster ( gypsum , ) is used extensively as a top - dressing for clover - in a dry season increasing its growth fully one hundred per cent . It is ...
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... nearly the last acre of forest - land they owned . How true is the old maxim , " It is much easier to destroy than to build ; " and a tree that has required a period of time equal to six generations of men to mature and bring to its ...
... nearly the last acre of forest - land they owned . How true is the old maxim , " It is much easier to destroy than to build ; " and a tree that has required a period of time equal to six generations of men to mature and bring to its ...
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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