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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... SEEDS AND THE DEVIL . 203 Butter - making in all its Attractions . - The Cream unequal to the Emergency . - Some Things can't be Done as well as Others.- Electrical Phenomena . - Gathering Seed . - Incidental Reference to Satan and his ...
... SEEDS AND THE DEVIL . 203 Butter - making in all its Attractions . - The Cream unequal to the Emergency . - Some Things can't be Done as well as Others.- Electrical Phenomena . - Gathering Seed . - Incidental Reference to Satan and his ...
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... , there were plenty , and Bridgman's " Gar- dener's Assistant , " the result was certain . It was merely a question of seeds , weeds , and manure - the > first and last to be encouraged , and the other xiv INTRODUCTION .
... , there were plenty , and Bridgman's " Gar- dener's Assistant , " the result was certain . It was merely a question of seeds , weeds , and manure - the > first and last to be encouraged , and the other xiv INTRODUCTION .
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... seed in the ground , and it comes up — that is , if it does come up - either a pea or a bean , a carrot or a turnip , and , with your best skill and greatest learning , you can not plant a pea and induce it to come up a bean , or ...
... seed in the ground , and it comes up — that is , if it does come up - either a pea or a bean , a carrot or a turnip , and , with your best skill and greatest learning , you can not plant a pea and induce it to come up a bean , or ...
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... seeds , especially of radishes , beets , or carrots , should be planted at least a foot deep , so that the root might be long ; but the author insisted that they should be covered with only two inches of earth . Unfortu- nately ...
... seeds , especially of radishes , beets , or carrots , should be planted at least a foot deep , so that the root might be long ; but the author insisted that they should be covered with only two inches of earth . Unfortu- nately ...
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... parsnips , and Daniel O'Rourke peas , and pur- chased at the seed - store for the moderate sum of four dollars and fifty cents , according to the particular en- + try made in my memorandum - book at the time 102 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
... parsnips , and Daniel O'Rourke peas , and pur- chased at the seed - store for the moderate sum of four dollars and fifty cents , according to the particular en- + try made in my memorandum - book at the time 102 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
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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,