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 |
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Page v
... Thing . " - Want of Time . - Free Trade in Houses advocated as superior to Home Production . - The imported Article falls into the Hands of a Philistine named Barney . - A fresh Arrival.- The House comes , but the Builder does not ...
... Thing . " - Want of Time . - Free Trade in Houses advocated as superior to Home Production . - The imported Article falls into the Hands of a Philistine named Barney . - A fresh Arrival.- The House comes , but the Builder does not ...
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... Things to have . - You wish you may get them . -Ornamental as opposed to practical Views . — A dissolving View . -Bad ... Thing in the wrong Place . - A Hen lays herself out . -Twenty pair of Chickens raise the Hair of one Mink ...
... Things to have . - You wish you may get them . -Ornamental as opposed to practical Views . — A dissolving View . -Bad ... Thing in the wrong Place . - A Hen lays herself out . -Twenty pair of Chickens raise the Hair of one Mink ...
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... Thing in the House ...... ......... Page 136 CHAPTER X. PROFIT AND LOSS . Immense pecuniary Advantages of high old Farming . - Exactitude the Foundation of Success in Life . - A plain Statement . - General Reflections . - An amateur ...
... Thing in the House ...... ......... Page 136 CHAPTER X. PROFIT AND LOSS . Immense pecuniary Advantages of high old Farming . - Exactitude the Foundation of Success in Life . - A plain Statement . - General Reflections . - An amateur ...
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... thing of a plot of sand in New Jersey , as much could probably be done with half the area in the fine soil of Flushing . Un- fortunately , my land had no improvements , but then it was a magnificent level square , precisely like a block ...
... thing of a plot of sand in New Jersey , as much could probably be done with half the area in the fine soil of Flushing . Un- fortunately , my land had no improvements , but then it was a magnificent level square , precisely like a block ...
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... things had been done to my hand , and that possibly I was not exactly the man to do them in the best way ; but a second perusal of " Ten Acres Enough " was enough for me , and these absurd doubts were banished forever . If an uneducated ...
... things had been done to my hand , and that possibly I was not exactly the man to do them in the best way ; but a second perusal of " Ten Acres Enough " was enough for me , and these absurd doubts were banished forever . If an uneducated ...
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