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 81
... amount of patience ; so I sat down on the platform , dangling my feet over the edge , as was the universal custom , and commenced to endure an hour's unnecessary existence . It is queer how we hate life when it is forced upon us D2 THE ...
... amount of patience ; so I sat down on the platform , dangling my feet over the edge , as was the universal custom , and commenced to endure an hour's unnecessary existence . It is queer how we hate life when it is forced upon us D2 THE ...
Page 97
... amount of food that may be concentrated in an acre . They condemn themselves to the everlasting routine of bread , potatoes , and salt meat , forgetting that the labor of a few hours occasionally of themselves or their children in the ...
... amount of food that may be concentrated in an acre . They condemn themselves to the everlasting routine of bread , potatoes , and salt meat , forgetting that the labor of a few hours occasionally of themselves or their children in the ...
Page 115
... amount of information in this work is as in- exhaustible as it is surprising . Under the author's manipulation , plants assume a fresh nature and ex- hibit new attractions ; the most vulgar flower comes back decked in an aristocratic ...
... amount of information in this work is as in- exhaustible as it is surprising . Under the author's manipulation , plants assume a fresh nature and ex- hibit new attractions ; the most vulgar flower comes back decked in an aristocratic ...
Page 151
... amount of such increase is too indef- inite to be stated with the accuracy required by this work , consequently it is omitted altogether , the inten- tion of the writer being to give only such items as may be fully relied on by any ...
... amount of such increase is too indef- inite to be stated with the accuracy required by this work , consequently it is omitted altogether , the inten- tion of the writer being to give only such items as may be fully relied on by any ...
Page 220
... amount could be saved in a sum- mer . " " I should like to inquire farther , " I hastily an- swered ; and , hurrying down stairs , in spite of re- marks about acids and oxygen , nitrogen , caseine , and a dozen other scientific ...
... amount could be saved in a sum- mer . " " I should like to inquire farther , " I hastily an- swered ; and , hurrying down stairs , in spite of re- marks about acids and oxygen , nitrogen , caseine , and a dozen other scientific ...
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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,