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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Página iii
... DIRECTIONS AND STRICT OBE- DIENCE TO THEIR RULES ; AND AS A SLIGHT TESTIMONIAL TO THE ACCURACY , LUCIDITY , AND PRACTICABILITY OF THE ADVICE WHICH THEY GIVE AND THE EXPERIENCES THEY DESCRIBE ; IN THE SINCERE HOPE THAT THEY WILL NEVER ...
... DIRECTIONS AND STRICT OBE- DIENCE TO THEIR RULES ; AND AS A SLIGHT TESTIMONIAL TO THE ACCURACY , LUCIDITY , AND PRACTICABILITY OF THE ADVICE WHICH THEY GIVE AND THE EXPERIENCES THEY DESCRIBE ; IN THE SINCERE HOPE THAT THEY WILL NEVER ...
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... Directions in Feeding.— Preparations to receive the Animal . - Her Arrival . - An awful Pause . The Fray about to begin . - Intelligence of Cows and Bid- dies.- Victory . - A Calm . - Cow Complainings.- Approaching Storm . - A Tempest ...
... Directions in Feeding.— Preparations to receive the Animal . - Her Arrival . - An awful Pause . The Fray about to begin . - Intelligence of Cows and Bid- dies.- Victory . - A Calm . - Cow Complainings.- Approaching Storm . - A Tempest ...
Página ix
... directions are given on the subject of planting and sowing , draining and reaping , manuring and pruning ; berries and fruits , vines and vegetables , are duly considered ; and the question of outlay and income , expenses and receipts ...
... directions are given on the subject of planting and sowing , draining and reaping , manuring and pruning ; berries and fruits , vines and vegetables , are duly considered ; and the question of outlay and income , expenses and receipts ...
Página 99
... directions to meet the case , the advice of Weeville was called for . He said the land must be plowed , harrowed , and well dug over , and asked where the kitchen garden was to be placed . It was with no little satisfaction that I ...
... directions to meet the case , the advice of Weeville was called for . He said the land must be plowed , harrowed , and well dug over , and asked where the kitchen garden was to be placed . It was with no little satisfaction that I ...
Página 117
... directions how to produce a rain if it does not come naturally . It was in vain that I waited for even a shower - in vain that I scan- ned the sky at sunrise or sunset , watched the wind , or consulted the weather - wise . Clouds ceased ...
... directions how to produce a rain if it does not come naturally . It was in vain that I waited for even a shower - in vain that I scan- ned the sky at sunrise or sunset , watched the wind , or consulted the weather - wise . Clouds ceased ...
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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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