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... English agriculturalist might be very much benefited by availing himself of the appliances which the present advanced state of mechanical science has placed at his disposal . The Lectures on the Rise and Progress of Civil and Mechanical ...
... English agriculturalist might be very much benefited by availing himself of the appliances which the present advanced state of mechanical science has placed at his disposal . The Lectures on the Rise and Progress of Civil and Mechanical ...
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... English Oak ( dried ) Ash Plumtree Beech · ( ditto ) ( ditto ) Timber . · • Red Deal Cedar · · • • Yellow Pine • • · 99 805 1,424 Clark . 9,7711 9,509 9,363 8,241 6,402 Hodgkinson . 5,748 5,674 5,375 The above summary gives pretty ...
... English Oak ( dried ) Ash Plumtree Beech · ( ditto ) ( ditto ) Timber . · • Red Deal Cedar · · • • Yellow Pine • • · 99 805 1,424 Clark . 9,7711 9,509 9,363 8,241 6,402 Hodgkinson . 5,748 5,674 5,375 The above summary gives pretty ...
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... English farming , and one of the most sagacious and talented of men . As a contem- porary and colleague he allied himself with the eccentric but gifted Robert Bakewell , the founder of the breed of Leicester sheep , and the yeoman ...
... English farming , and one of the most sagacious and talented of men . As a contem- porary and colleague he allied himself with the eccentric but gifted Robert Bakewell , the founder of the breed of Leicester sheep , and the yeoman ...
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... English farmer , and I recommend him to you as a model worthy of imitation . Our progress since the times of Bakewell has been rapid and steady , and has placed us in the first position as agriculturists among the nations of the world ...
... English farmer , and I recommend him to you as a model worthy of imitation . Our progress since the times of Bakewell has been rapid and steady , and has placed us in the first position as agriculturists among the nations of the world ...
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... ( English ) is an improvement upon Bell's , and in great repute among the farmers of the North Riding of Yorkshire and other parts of England . In the hands of Croskill it has received several improve- ments , but unfortunately on this ...
... ( English ) is an improvement upon Bell's , and in great repute among the farmers of the North Riding of Yorkshire and other parts of England . In the hands of Croskill it has received several improve- ments , but unfortunately on this ...
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