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 vii
... Success in Life . - A plain Statement . - General Reflections.An amateur Butcher . - Boiled salt Pork ......... 148 CHAPTER XI . THE FLUSHING SKATING - POND - A DIGRESSION . A nice Man as an Ice - man .... CHAPTER XII . THE SECOND YEAR ...
... Success in Life . - A plain Statement . - General Reflections.An amateur Butcher . - Boiled salt Pork ......... 148 CHAPTER XI . THE FLUSHING SKATING - POND - A DIGRESSION . A nice Man as an Ice - man .... CHAPTER XII . THE SECOND YEAR ...
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... SUCCESS OF THE YEAR . A second Year's Balance - sheet . - Still greater Promises . - Success assured . - Every Man should be his own Market Gardener . - No dearth of Onions . -Transported at the Result . - The last of the family Horse ...
... SUCCESS OF THE YEAR . A second Year's Balance - sheet . - Still greater Promises . - Success assured . - Every Man should be his own Market Gardener . - No dearth of Onions . -Transported at the Result . - The last of the family Horse ...
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... successful attempt of a Philadelphia mechanic to redeem a strip of exhausted land of ten acres in ex- tent . In the course of it , a vast deal of advice and most valuable directions are given on the subject of planting and sowing ...
... successful attempt of a Philadelphia mechanic to redeem a strip of exhausted land of ten acres in ex- tent . In the course of it , a vast deal of advice and most valuable directions are given on the subject of planting and sowing ...
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... , and , being naturally proud of his adopted village , and interested in my success in em- igrating thither , gave me throughout his valuable ad- vice and assistance . Of course , his aid was called in on the 20 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
... , and , being naturally proud of his adopted village , and interested in my success in em- igrating thither , gave me throughout his valuable ad- vice and assistance . Of course , his aid was called in on the 20 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
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... success . The haymakers , or whoever they are that own hay , had raised the price of their goods to 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 ...
... success . The haymakers , or whoever they are that own hay , had raised the price of their goods to 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 ...
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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,