Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture: Containing Communications on Various Subjects in Husbandry & Rural Affairs, Volume 4Johnson & Warner, 1818 - Agriculture Vol. 1- includes a statistical account of the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge. |
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... Mode of cultivating Indian corn . Harrows . By R. K. Meade , of Virginia , - 184 XLVII . Stunt and black grub , by Samuel Preston , 189 XLVIII . Communications in consequence of the request of the society , on the circumstances ...
... Mode of cultivating Indian corn . Harrows . By R. K. Meade , of Virginia , - 184 XLVII . Stunt and black grub , by Samuel Preston , 189 XLVIII . Communications in consequence of the request of the society , on the circumstances ...
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... unnecessary emigration . The sure mode is that which teaches our husbandmen to be easy and happy at home ; and , of course , supersedes the necessity of their wandering abroad . Those who dwell in cities would be ii Preface .
... unnecessary emigration . The sure mode is that which teaches our husbandmen to be easy and happy at home ; and , of course , supersedes the necessity of their wandering abroad . Those who dwell in cities would be ii Preface .
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... mode of cultivation are pointed out , by John An- struther , London , 1816 . Farmer's Calendar , by A. Young . General View of the Agriculture of Lancashire , with Ob- servations on the Means of its Improvement , by R. W. Dickson , 1815 ...
... mode of cultivation are pointed out , by John An- struther , London , 1816 . Farmer's Calendar , by A. Young . General View of the Agriculture of Lancashire , with Ob- servations on the Means of its Improvement , by R. W. Dickson , 1815 ...
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... modes of cultivation . All our exertions enure to the benefit of ourselves and our descendants . And although it may be attended with some delay to the progress of improvement , that our farmers can live well with indifferent husbandry ...
... modes of cultivation . All our exertions enure to the benefit of ourselves and our descendants . And although it may be attended with some delay to the progress of improvement , that our farmers can live well with indifferent husbandry ...
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... mode of improving agriculture , was , " to lay your hands on the plough - handles , and urge on your horses . " It was in vain that I combated this quaint , and as they thought , unanswerable dogma . If the hands of a common sai- lor ...
... mode of improving agriculture , was , " to lay your hands on the plough - handles , and urge on your horses . " It was in vain that I combated this quaint , and as they thought , unanswerable dogma . If the hands of a common sai- lor ...
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