 ... and they draw out the fish with baskets, each according to the land he cultivates, and carry them to it, depositing in each hill three or four fishes, and in these they plant their maize, which grows as luxuriantly therein as though it were the best...  The New England Farmer - Page 931869Full view - About this book
 | John Abbot Goodwin - Congregationalism - 1879 - 726 pages
...up above, where they deposit their spawn, that at one tide there are ten thousand to twelve thousand fish in it, which they shut off in the rear at the...not grow, so that such is the nature of the soil. " New Plymouth lies on the slope of a hill, stretching east toward the sea-coast, with a broad street... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - Massachusetts - 1920 - 402 pages
...up above, where they deposit their spawn, that at one tide there are ten thousand to twelve thousand fish in it, which they shut off in the rear at the...not lay this fish therein, the maize will not grow, such is the nature of the soil. New Plymouth lies on the slope of a hill, stretching east toward the... | |
 | Norris Galpin Osborn - Connecticut - 1925 - 758 pages
...first fish was the only fertilizer. Three or four fish, (menhaden), were put in a hill "and in them they plant their maize which grows as luxuriantly...the best manure in the world; and if they do not lay fish therein the maize will not grow, so that such is the nature of the soil." (42) The colonists brought... | |
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