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The normal paper will be prepared by using bagas, eucalyptus.
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In the industry of sugar they left off wastes of sugar cane bagas will be taken as Fuel for the use of this paper.
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But this idea of plants coming primarily from a single pair of progenitors, and each primordial pair branching off into diversified offspring, as in the case of the cabbage, assumed to be the original ancestor of all the turnips and ruta-bagas, may be an article of botanical faith, but never of experimental proof.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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Ten years after, William Cobbett, who had left England in a fit of political disgust and had settled himself on Long Island to raise hogs and ruta-bagas, resolved to go home again.
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Wild peas, beans, stringy-rooted carrots, ruta-bagas, and turnips grew on the hillsides.
The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
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In some sections, no amount of manuring appears to make corn do well after turnips or ruta bagas.
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Except the maggot (see cabbage maggot,), there are no serious insects or diseases peculiar to turnips and bagas.
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Fall-sown or summer-sown bagas should have a month the start of flat turnips.
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The gentle reader will notice that, as a rule, the man who gives the most time and thought to this subject is an invalid himself; just as the young theological student devotes his first sermon to the care of children, and the ward politician talks the smoothest on the subject of how and when to plant ruta-bagas or wean a calf from the parent stem.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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Other vegetables are at times raised for cattle feed, such as potatoes, carrots, ruta bagas, mangold wurtzels; a crop of potatoes yielding four hundred bushels to the acre at sixty pounds the bushel would weigh twelve tons; a crop of carrot yielding twelve hundred bushels to the acre would weigh thirty tons; ruta bagas sometimes yield thirty tons; and mangolds as high as seventy tons to the acre.
Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop James John Howard Gregory 1868
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