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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Page ix
... fruits , vines and vegetables , are duly considered ; and the question of outlay and income , expenses and receipts , losses and profits , is forever ding - donged into one's ears . So useful is the instruction it contains , that no one ...
... fruits , vines and vegetables , are duly considered ; and the question of outlay and income , expenses and receipts , losses and profits , is forever ding - donged into one's ears . So useful is the instruction it contains , that no one ...
Page x
... waving grass , its early vegetables , and its luscious fruits , is most at- tractive ; and where a residence can be obtained which combines all these luxuries with pure air , and no chills and fever , and which is not too X INTRODUCTION .
... waving grass , its early vegetables , and its luscious fruits , is most at- tractive ; and where a residence can be obtained which combines all these luxuries with pure air , and no chills and fever , and which is not too X INTRODUCTION .
Page xiv
... fruit - trees of any kind except one apple - tree , but then the nurseries and a little labor would make this right . An unpleasant suspicion crossed my mind that perhaps it would have been better if some of these things had been done ...
... fruit - trees of any kind except one apple - tree , but then the nurseries and a little labor would make this right . An unpleasant suspicion crossed my mind that perhaps it would have been better if some of these things had been done ...
Page xv
... fruits , and berries , the earliest and best of their kinds ; there should be a magnificent bed of asparagus - that king of the kitchen garden - a dozen long rows of strawberries , with fruit as luscious as a young girl's lips ...
... fruits , and berries , the earliest and best of their kinds ; there should be a magnificent bed of asparagus - that king of the kitchen garden - a dozen long rows of strawberries , with fruit as luscious as a young girl's lips ...
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... fruit , although the strict Puritan customs of those times may have forbidden her en- joying its juice , except , perhaps , in the Puritan way— on the sly . Anna took the next largest island , which from that day has been called ...
... fruit , although the strict Puritan customs of those times may have forbidden her en- joying its juice , except , perhaps , in the Puritan way— on the sly . Anna took the next largest island , which from that day has been called ...
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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,