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 ... |
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... CHAPTER I. A COW . Special Points about the Bovine Race . - Directions in Feeding.— Preparations to receive the Animal . - Her Arrival . - An awful Pause . The Fray about to begin . - Intelligence of Cows and Bid- dies.- Victory . - A ...
... CHAPTER I. A COW . Special Points about the Bovine Race . - Directions in Feeding.— Preparations to receive the Animal . - Her Arrival . - An awful Pause . The Fray about to begin . - Intelligence of Cows and Bid- dies.- Victory . - A ...
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... CHAPTER IV . THE COUNTRY , AND HOW TO GET THERE . Easy Accessibility of Flushing . - An improving Railroad . - Educa- tion by Steam . - True Principles of Travel ... CHAPTER V. A WELL . 77 A Well , considered classically and otherwise ...
... CHAPTER IV . THE COUNTRY , AND HOW TO GET THERE . Easy Accessibility of Flushing . - An improving Railroad . - Educa- tion by Steam . - True Principles of Travel ... CHAPTER V. A WELL . 77 A Well , considered classically and otherwise ...
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... 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 Butcher . - Boiled salt Pork ......... 148 CHAPTER ...
... 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 Butcher . - Boiled salt Pork ......... 148 CHAPTER ...
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... CHAPTER XVIII . PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL . The window Garden . - Warm Work . - Immense Resources of Sci- ence . - Mind against Matter . - What can the Matter be ? -The new Flower CHAPTER XIX . 253 A GREAT RUNNER . A perfect Jonah . Very ...
... CHAPTER XVIII . PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL . The window Garden . - Warm Work . - Immense Resources of Sci- ence . - Mind against Matter . - What can the Matter be ? -The new Flower CHAPTER XIX . 253 A GREAT RUNNER . A perfect Jonah . Very ...
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... - sionally defective in style and irregular in plan , it is probably not more so than was my farming . : FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH . T IT CHAPTER I. A INTRODUCTION . xvii although by a strange fatality my education in coun- ...
... - sionally defective in style and irregular in plan , it is probably not more so than was my farming . : FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH . T IT CHAPTER I. A INTRODUCTION . xvii although by a strange fatality my education in coun- ...
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Page i - 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. By ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, Author of "Game Fish of North America," "Superior Fishing," "Game Birds,