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... thing else . The cows are a mixed breed , between the red Hungarian , or Swiss cow , and those of Lombardy . The chief peculiarity in their feeding is , that they are allowed to eat four or five hours in the twenty - four ; all the rest ...
... thing else . The cows are a mixed breed , between the red Hungarian , or Swiss cow , and those of Lombardy . The chief peculiarity in their feeding is , that they are allowed to eat four or five hours in the twenty - four ; all the rest ...
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... thing is burned up with drought , so much . They would , doubtlessly , let for more if It is remarkable , that in the most northerly parts of they were divided and peopled , but not in the pro- Europe and America , the same effect ...
... thing is burned up with drought , so much . They would , doubtlessly , let for more if It is remarkable , that in the most northerly parts of they were divided and peopled , but not in the pro- Europe and America , the same effect ...
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... thing to be ob- served , is the direction and strength of the wind ; if straight , and the wind be moderately strong , they the tree be pretty tall , and lean but a little or be must always cut on the side opposite to the wind , for it ...
... thing to be ob- served , is the direction and strength of the wind ; if straight , and the wind be moderately strong , they the tree be pretty tall , and lean but a little or be must always cut on the side opposite to the wind , for it ...
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... thing of premature forwardness , for- mality or affectation " Affectation is but lighting up a candle to our de ... thing , and every thing in its place . is made , one man will cultivate ten acres of vine themselves well , and to speak ...
... thing of premature forwardness , for- mality or affectation " Affectation is but lighting up a candle to our de ... thing , and every thing in its place . is made , one man will cultivate ten acres of vine themselves well , and to speak ...
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... things the most difficult thing that may tend to promote the cause of agri- sent procure a three or four year old colt or two , to find , and the most ready of sale , for at least $ 200 , culture . From what I have seen on his ...
... things the most difficult thing that may tend to promote the cause of agri- sent procure a three or four year old colt or two , to find , and the most ready of sale , for at least $ 200 , culture . From what I have seen on his ...
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acre afford agricultural Agrostis stolonifera American Farmer animals appear Baltimore better bred breed bushels carbonic acid cattle cents cock's-foot colour colt corn cotton covered crop culms cultivated dollars early England equal experience farm favour feet filly fiorin five flowering fruit garden Godolphin Arabian grain grandam grape grass ground growth half heat hemp horse imported improvement inches J. S. SKINNER kind labour land leaves less maize manufacture manure mare Maryland matter ment miles nature observed Ohio Ohio river pasture planter plants plough pounds practice produce proportion quantity rail rail-road rail-way red clover rice road roots salt season seed sheep siliceous silk soil South Carolina sown species spring straw tion tivated tobacco tree ture turnips valuable vegetable vine wheat wool worms Zante Currant
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