Five Acres Too Much: A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as Involved in Amateur Farming, with Much Valuable Advice and Instruction to Those about Purchasing Large Or Small Places in the Rural Districts. C By Robert B. Roosevelt ...Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1869 - 304 páginas |
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... Weeville , who had been there several years , and who had acquired great knowledge of the intricacies of rural performances , and , among other things , was learned in cows . In fact , he was learned in most farming matters , and ...
... Weeville , who had been there several years , and who had acquired great knowledge of the intricacies of rural performances , and , among other things , was learned in cows . In fact , he was learned in most farming matters , and ...
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... Weeville had given me specific direc- tions in writing how to feed that cow ; exactly how much bran - of which , after some trouble , and a vain attempt to buy a few pounds of it , I had obtained a bag - was to be mixed with a certain ...
... Weeville had given me specific direc- tions in writing how to feed that cow ; exactly how much bran - of which , after some trouble , and a vain attempt to buy a few pounds of it , I had obtained a bag - was to be mixed with a certain ...
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... Wee- ville . He had hardly turned the corner before a butcher rushed out and announced that he wanted to buy that cow . Patrick indignantly refused , true to the aristocratic Irish idea that the employer is always above disposing of any ...
... Wee- ville . He had hardly turned the corner before a butcher rushed out and announced that he wanted to buy that cow . Patrick indignantly refused , true to the aristocratic Irish idea that the employer is always above disposing of any ...
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... Weeville for information , and in- quired whether murders were a common event in that neighborhood . His manner in reply was very encouraging . He had lived in Flushing nine years , and this was the first case of the kind . It was the ...
... Weeville for information , and in- quired whether murders were a common event in that neighborhood . His manner in reply was very encouraging . He had lived in Flushing nine years , and this was the first case of the kind . It was the ...
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... Weeville , in the com- mencement of our enterprise , with his usual enthusi- astic manner , " that you will appreciate the access to Flushing is most convenient ; there are twelve trains each way daily , and they run with perfect ig ...
... Weeville , in the com- mencement of our enterprise , with his usual enthusi- astic manner , " that you will appreciate the access to Flushing is most convenient ; there are twelve trains each way daily , and they run with perfect ig ...
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appeared aquilegia formosa asparagus beautiful new coach became better Bridgeman called cauliflowers CHAPTER chickens churn Cloth cost cream crimson flax Cushy Dandy Jim Daniel O'Rourke peas Datura DATURA WRIGHTII dollars doubt DUTCH REPUBLIC early earth egg-plants eggs entire fact feathers feet five acres flowers flure Flushing French Revolution fresh fruit garden gourds Gran grass grew grow head horse inquired intirely Irish Irishmen JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT kitchen leaves look manure Marrott matter milk mind musquitoes Nantucket natural never occasionally onions Patrick piazza pig-pens plants pleasant pond pretty profit pump pups rain replied roof round SAMUEL SMILES season seedling seeds seemed skating spite spring strawberries summer sure thing tion trouble turnips vegetables verbenas village vols wagon waited wanted weeds Weeville Weeville's wonderful yer honor
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