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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... 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 ...
... 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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... never makes a fuss . The first point , therefore , was to buy a cow . I had a friend living at Flushing named Augustus Weeville , who had been there several years , and who had acquired great knowledge of the intricacies of rural ...
... never makes a fuss . The first point , therefore , was to buy a cow . I had a friend living at Flushing named Augustus Weeville , who had been there several years , and who had acquired great knowledge of the intricacies of rural ...
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... never could arrive at any satisfactory con- clusion except that pure milk and fresh cream were , either combined or separate , very satisfactory . Cushy had an excellent disposition ; she never ex- hibited 32 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
... never could arrive at any satisfactory con- clusion except that pure milk and fresh cream were , either combined or separate , very satisfactory . Cushy had an excellent disposition ; she never ex- hibited 32 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
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... never ex- hibited but one evil passion , and that was for the meal - tub : she would feed from the hand or a pail , or , in fact , in any way , so long as she was fed enough . Upon this regimen she waxed fat , until it became a serious ...
... never ex- hibited but one evil passion , and that was for the meal - tub : she would feed from the hand or a pail , or , in fact , in any way , so long as she was fed enough . Upon this regimen she waxed fat , until it became a serious ...
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... My presentiments of success were not mistaken , and I felt almost like claiming , with the modest author of " Ten Acres Enough , " that my impressions were never wrong . IF CHAPTER II . A HOUSE , PLANS , AND 36 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
... My presentiments of success were not mistaken , and I felt almost like claiming , with the modest author of " Ten Acres Enough , " that my impressions were never wrong . IF CHAPTER II . A HOUSE , PLANS , AND 36 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
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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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