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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... EXPERIENCES THEY DESCRIBE ; IN THE SINCERE HOPE THAT THEY WILL NEVER WEARY OF COMPOSING BOOKS EQUALLY TRUTHFUL , TRUSTWORTHY , AND INTERESTING . THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Apotheosis of the Country , especially 1 ...
... EXPERIENCES THEY DESCRIBE ; IN THE SINCERE HOPE THAT THEY WILL NEVER WEARY OF COMPOSING BOOKS EQUALLY TRUTHFUL , TRUSTWORTHY , AND INTERESTING . THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Apotheosis of the Country , especially 1 ...
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... experiences for the guidance and instruction of others . Thus it came about that this work was written ; and if it is occa- sionally defective in style and irregular in plan , it is probably not more so than was my farming . : FIVE ...
... experiences for the guidance and instruction of others . Thus it came about that this work was written ; and if it is occa- sionally defective in style and irregular in plan , it is probably not more so than was my farming . : FIVE ...
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... experience imme- diately dictated , was absolute perfection . The build- ing was only twenty - four feet by thirty - six , yet there were seven comfortable rooms on the first and second floors , the parlor moderately large , the dining ...
... experience imme- diately dictated , was absolute perfection . The build- ing was only twenty - four feet by thirty - six , yet there were seven comfortable rooms on the first and second floors , the parlor moderately large , the dining ...
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... experience in the matter of lint and bandages , such as occupied so much of our time during the war . He kept on steadily adding boards , and windows , and siding , and beams together , till they took on the semblance of a house . To be ...
... experience in the matter of lint and bandages , such as occupied so much of our time during the war . He kept on steadily adding boards , and windows , and siding , and beams together , till they took on the semblance of a house . To be ...
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... experience of horse - flesh has been varied and instructive : I have been thrown over their heads and slid over their tails ; have been dragged by saddle - stirrups and tossed out of wagons ; I have had them to balk and to kick , to run ...
... experience of horse - flesh has been varied and instructive : I have been thrown over their heads and slid over their tails ; have been dragged by saddle - stirrups and tossed out of wagons ; I have had them to balk and to kick , to run ...
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