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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... doubts were banished forever . If an uneducated mechanic could leave Philadelphia , rescue a decaying farm , and make it splendidly remunerative , why could not an edu- cated lawyer from New York convert an uninjured farm into the ...
... doubts were banished forever . If an uneducated mechanic could leave Philadelphia , rescue a decaying farm , and make it splendidly remunerative , why could not an edu- cated lawyer from New York convert an uninjured farm into the ...
Page 49
... doubts disappeared ; hopes grew into cer- tainties ; and the mason who was building the foun- dation engaged all the carts , trucks , and wagons in the village to transport what he called " the stuff ” to my premises . He drove down in ...
... doubts disappeared ; hopes grew into cer- tainties ; and the mason who was building the foun- dation engaged all the carts , trucks , and wagons in the village to transport what he called " the stuff ” to my premises . He drove down in ...
Page 52
... doubt often requested they should be , doors , win- dows , shingles , pieces of roof , floor - boards , posts , moulding , and a thousand other odds , ends , bits , and pieces , in the most admired confusion - and deposit- ed them upon ...
... doubt often requested they should be , doors , win- dows , shingles , pieces of roof , floor - boards , posts , moulding , and a thousand other odds , ends , bits , and pieces , in the most admired confusion - and deposit- ed them upon ...
Page 59
... doubt- less as good , and had the advantage of a tight roof and solid walls . Here I could conveniently watch the progress of the undertaking without being so deeply interested as if my lodging depended on it . As distance is supposed ...
... doubt- less as good , and had the advantage of a tight roof and solid walls . Here I could conveniently watch the progress of the undertaking without being so deeply interested as if my lodging depended on it . As distance is supposed ...
Page 94
... doubt . When he paused , the same appalling sigh that had greeted me an- nounced a similar result , and I smiled amid my mis- ery to see his manner change as he recommenced . After two or three attempts , he stopped suddenly and ...
... doubt . When he paused , the same appalling sigh that had greeted me an- nounced a similar result , and I smiled amid my mis- ery to see his manner change as he recommenced . After two or three attempts , he stopped suddenly and ...
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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,