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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... Chickens raise the Hair of one Mink ........ 124 CHAPTER IX . FALL WORK . A Fortune in Strawberries . - How to get it out . - Debility developed . -Science to the Rescue . - The wonderful Effects of a Liquid Fer- tilizer . House ...
... Chickens raise the Hair of one Mink ........ 124 CHAPTER IX . FALL WORK . A Fortune in Strawberries . - How to get it out . - Debility developed . -Science to the Rescue . - The wonderful Effects of a Liquid Fer- tilizer . House ...
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... chickens could be obtained at any time ; horses had to be had , of course , but need not bother one till the last moment ; but a cow was a creature that must be taken when a good one offered . Moreover , I have a weakness for cows : it ...
... chickens could be obtained at any time ; horses had to be had , of course , but need not bother one till the last moment ; but a cow was a creature that must be taken when a good one offered . Moreover , I have a weakness for cows : it ...
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... chickens . The hens have the finest qualities of the most exemplary moth- ers ; the cocks possess many of the characteristics , in courage and devotion to " the sex , " of the cavaliers of olden time . Behold the anxious matron ruffling ...
... chickens . The hens have the finest qualities of the most exemplary moth- ers ; the cocks possess many of the characteristics , in courage and devotion to " the sex , " of the cavaliers of olden time . Behold the anxious matron ruffling ...
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... chickens are good gastronomically , and eggs undeniable . They pick up most of their own food , and consequently are economical , and this , with so careful a calculator as myself , was sufficient . Their increase is vast , and the ...
... chickens are good gastronomically , and eggs undeniable . They pick up most of their own food , and consequently are economical , and this , with so careful a calculator as myself , was sufficient . Their increase is vast , and the ...
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... chickens were scarce and high , and that she only let me have them as a special favor . Moreover , the breed of chickens kept at Flushing is rare and valuable ; they were either Shanghais , or Dorkings , or Black Spanish , or something ...
... chickens were scarce and high , and that she only let me have them as a special favor . Moreover , the breed of chickens kept at Flushing is rare and valuable ; they were either Shanghais , or Dorkings , or Black Spanish , or something ...
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