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Page 78
... numerous vegetable produc- tions require , a farmer , if ignorant , unskilful , or negligent , will soon find an enemy in every circumstance around him . The wrong time , or the wrong place , or the wrong method , will make his labour ...
... numerous vegetable produc- tions require , a farmer , if ignorant , unskilful , or negligent , will soon find an enemy in every circumstance around him . The wrong time , or the wrong place , or the wrong method , will make his labour ...
Page 88
... numerous farming herds that can sub- sist on the common and scanty means which are open to them . The cow and the sheep must have pasture and often costly care . Not so the poor man's pig : with an unfailing ap- 88 HOGS . Hogs.
... numerous farming herds that can sub- sist on the common and scanty means which are open to them . The cow and the sheep must have pasture and often costly care . Not so the poor man's pig : with an unfailing ap- 88 HOGS . Hogs.
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... numerous . I give you a repre- sentation of two sorts , Meadow Clover , and White Clover . Meadow clover resembles red clover , which I have not described in this little work , but is of a paler hue , not so high in its growth , with ...
... numerous . I give you a repre- sentation of two sorts , Meadow Clover , and White Clover . Meadow clover resembles red clover , which I have not described in this little work , but is of a paler hue , not so high in its growth , with ...
Page 175
... numerous mis- fortunes , which none can prevent or foresee : dripping seasons , blight and mildew , diseases in cattle , sudden falls in the value of produce , a vexatious and unprincipled landlord . A few of these circumstances ...
... numerous mis- fortunes , which none can prevent or foresee : dripping seasons , blight and mildew , diseases in cattle , sudden falls in the value of produce , a vexatious and unprincipled landlord . A few of these circumstances ...
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... numerous Illustrations to each , and handsomely bound in cloth . MARMADUKE MULTI- NURSERY FABLES , Original " " STORIES OF. ANECDOTES OF KINGS , se- lected from History ; or , Ger- trude's Stories for Children . With engravings . Price ...
... numerous Illustrations to each , and handsomely bound in cloth . MARMADUKE MULTI- NURSERY FABLES , Original " " STORIES OF. ANECDOTES OF KINGS , se- lected from History ; or , Ger- trude's Stories for Children . With engravings . Price ...
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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