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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... hundred or a thousand would yield proportionally more was merely a question in the rule of three . There was one little matter , however , that somė- what impaired the full measure of this success . The haymakers , or whoever they are ...
... hundred or a thousand would yield proportionally more was merely a question in the rule of three . There was one little matter , however , that somė- what impaired the full measure of this success . The haymakers , or whoever they are ...
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... hundred - pound rebel shell had dropped into the cellar and scattered it to the four winds of heaven ; the watchman waited , watch- ed , and prayed , doubtless , for relief , till his money was spent , and his shoes worn out , and his ...
... hundred - pound rebel shell had dropped into the cellar and scattered it to the four winds of heaven ; the watchman waited , watch- ed , and prayed , doubtless , for relief , till his money was spent , and his shoes worn out , and his ...
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... hundred feet from the road , and surrounded on three sides by a high hedge of arbor - vita . At the front is a court - yard , and what was once a stately en- trance , with a carriage - drive round a circle , and a number of noble forest ...
... hundred feet from the road , and surrounded on three sides by a high hedge of arbor - vita . At the front is a court - yard , and what was once a stately en- trance , with a carriage - drive round a circle , and a number of noble forest ...
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... hundred and no matter what ; a high wind was blowing , and scattered clouds were driving rapidly across the sky ; the young gen- tleman at the appointed hour stood at the gate with a pair of fast trotters and one of the lightest turn ...
... hundred and no matter what ; a high wind was blowing , and scattered clouds were driving rapidly across the sky ; the young gen- tleman at the appointed hour stood at the gate with a pair of fast trotters and one of the lightest turn ...
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... hundred people , besides killing himself a piece of stupidity on his part only worthy of an ox . The trains had become very variable ; during the first week of my residence in Flushing , out of the six trips four were failures , and in ...
... hundred people , besides killing himself a piece of stupidity on his part only worthy of an ox . The trains had become very variable ; during the first week of my residence in Flushing , out of the six trips four were failures , and in ...
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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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