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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... turnip , and , with your best skill and greatest learning , you can not plant a pea and induce it to come up a bean , or convert a carrot into a turnip . As for planting , any fool can do that , and as for making it grow , the wisest ...
... turnip , and , with your best skill and greatest learning , you can not plant a pea and induce it to come up a bean , or convert a carrot into a turnip . As for planting , any fool can do that , and as for making it grow , the wisest ...
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... turnips , carrots , potato - peelings , bread , slops of all kinds that were not greasy ; that they were not fed oats , and required no exercise and no care in the stable , but stood in the sun all day long , winking and blinking with ...
... turnips , carrots , potato - peelings , bread , slops of all kinds that were not greasy ; that they were not fed oats , and required no exercise and no care in the stable , but stood in the sun all day long , winking and blinking with ...
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... turnip in her hand . The effect was mag- ical ; the creature's countenance changed instantly ; turnips evidently had been scarce with her , or her owner , not thinking it worth while to waste food that would not be paid for , had left ...
... turnip in her hand . The effect was mag- ical ; the creature's countenance changed instantly ; turnips evidently had been scarce with her , or her owner , not thinking it worth while to waste food that would not be paid for , had left ...
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... turnips . Of this satis- faction her incomprehensible behavior had deprived them , and they went away sad and disappointed men . This incident only placed the character of cows on a still more exalted pedestal , and fully justified my ...
... turnips . Of this satis- faction her incomprehensible behavior had deprived them , and they went away sad and disappointed men . This incident only placed the character of cows on a still more exalted pedestal , and fully justified my ...
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... turnip adventure reappeared . With the energy peculiar to that sympathetic race , the lady of the kitchen announced , " It was starving , the poor baste was ; and if the master would let her feed the crayture all she wanted , there ...
... turnip adventure reappeared . With the energy peculiar to that sympathetic race , the lady of the kitchen announced , " It was starving , the poor baste was ; and if the master would let her feed the crayture all she wanted , there ...
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