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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... seemed to be abundant , for the cows of the entire neighborhood had grazed on it from time immemorial ; a previous owner had been once known to plant cabbages , and the tradition is that they grew and came out cabbages , and did not ...
... seemed to be abundant , for the cows of the entire neighborhood had grazed on it from time immemorial ; a previous owner had been once known to plant cabbages , and the tradition is that they grew and came out cabbages , and did not ...
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... seemed of vital importance was the stock . Pigs and 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 ...
... seemed of vital importance was the stock . Pigs and 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 ...
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... seemed to have no effect in diminishing the quantity of mash she wanted ; rather she appeared to carry into practice the decep- tive proposition of the stingy father to his hungry sons that he who ate the most meat should have the most ...
... seemed to have no effect in diminishing the quantity of mash she wanted ; rather she appeared to carry into practice the decep- tive proposition of the stingy father to his hungry sons that he who ate the most meat should have the most ...
Página 47
... seemed as if it never would come to a point , and that a fly would have difficulty in maintaining a foothold on it , and the latter being so flat that a ball would hardly roll off the eaves . The whole was or- namented with an unlimited ...
... seemed as if it never would come to a point , and that a fly would have difficulty in maintaining a foothold on it , and the latter being so flat that a ball would hardly roll off the eaves . The whole was or- namented with an unlimited ...
Página 63
... seemed to feel that the reputation of all pigdom rest- ed on him , and , no matter how often the trough was replenished , he was ever ready to renew his attacks . His sides were puffed out and rounded like a ball , but he would stand ...
... seemed to feel that the reputation of all pigdom rest- ed on him , and , no matter how often the trough was replenished , he was ever ready to renew his attacks . His sides were puffed out and rounded like a ball , but he would stand ...
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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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