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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... keep these matters before the read- er's attention , it will be for the sole purpose of bene- fiting and enlightening him , and pointing out clearly the financial consequence of investing in rural resi- dences . The country -- how ...
... keep these matters before the read- er's attention , it will be for the sole purpose of bene- fiting and enlightening him , and pointing out clearly the financial consequence of investing in rural resi- dences . The country -- how ...
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... keep them from catching cold in winter , and have an odd way of perspiring through their noses that is as cu- rious as it is interesting . A cow is a model - with- out referring to this last peculiarity - for a wife ; she is gentle ...
... keep them from catching cold in winter , and have an odd way of perspiring through their noses that is as cu- rious as it is interesting . A cow is a model - with- out referring to this last peculiarity - for a wife ; she is gentle ...
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... keep her in the city , as no cow would ever go down the area steps and through a narrow hall - way into a back yard . Now I knew nothing of bran , and meal , and ship- stuff , and only listened with an attempt at an intel- ligent smile ...
... keep her in the city , as no cow would ever go down the area steps and through a narrow hall - way into a back yard . Now I knew nothing of bran , and meal , and ship- stuff , and only listened with an attempt at an intel- ligent smile ...
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... keep pace with the price of milk , so that hay was at the moderate rate of two dollars or two dollars and a half a hundred pounds . Moreover , that was an uncommonly intel- ligent cow , and she used her superior gifts to assure her own ...
... keep pace with the price of milk , so that hay was at the moderate rate of two dollars or two dollars and a half a hundred pounds . Moreover , that was an uncommonly intel- ligent cow , and she used her superior gifts to assure her own ...
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... keeping the plans a month , he re- turned them secretly , ran away , and was never heard of afterward . New York being pretty much exhausted by this time , application was made to the carpenters of Flushing . With one exception , they ...
... keeping the plans a month , he re- turned them secretly , ran away , and was never heard of afterward . New York being pretty much exhausted by this time , application was made to the carpenters of Flushing . With one exception , they ...
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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,