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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... clearly the financial consequence of investing in rural resi- dences . The country -- how beautiful it is ! To a man wearied with the cares of city life ; who has pursued an exhausting profession for several years with vig- orous energy ...
... clearly the financial consequence of investing in rural resi- dences . The country -- how beautiful it is ! To a man wearied with the cares of city life ; who has pursued an exhausting profession for several years with vig- orous energy ...
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... clear . When my dog howls I go out and whip him , and he appears to think that is the right thing to do , and stops ; but a cow is such a big thing to whip , and she did not seem to be in the least mollified by a few strokes of a stick ...
... clear . When my dog howls I go out and whip him , and he appears to think that is the right thing to do , and stops ; but a cow is such a big thing to whip , and she did not seem to be in the least mollified by a few strokes of a stick ...
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... clear opening for profit to the extent of sixty cents a day . Pure milk is rather a rarity -- by which is intimated that it is not universal - in the milkmen's carts in the great city of New York , where that of a watery con- sistency ...
... clear opening for profit to the extent of sixty cents a day . Pure milk is rather a rarity -- by which is intimated that it is not universal - in the milkmen's carts in the great city of New York , where that of a watery con- sistency ...
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... clear daily income of sixty cents , that a 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 ...
... clear daily income of sixty cents , that a 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 ...
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... clear prof- it of four cents daily , besides the thorough manuring of the yard , which with farmers is an important point , and would have been more valuable in this instance if it had been possible to grow any thing in it , and had it ...
... clear prof- it of four cents daily , besides the thorough manuring of the yard , which with farmers is an important point , and would have been more valuable in this instance if it had been possible to grow any thing in it , and had it ...
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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,