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Counted the number of the following articles which are contained in a pint : viz . of The small round pease commonly called Gentleman's Pease Those brot . from York Rivr . by Majr . G. Washington . Do.
Counted the number of the following articles which are contained in a pint : viz . of The small round pease commonly called Gentleman's Pease Those brot . from York Rivr . by Majr . G. Washington . Do.
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... a town without an inhabitant , builds a hotel without a guest , starts a newspaper without a subscriber , organizes railroad companies for direct connections with New York , San Francisco , Hudson's Bay , and the Gulf of Mexico .
... a town without an inhabitant , builds a hotel without a guest , starts a newspaper without a subscriber , organizes railroad companies for direct connections with New York , San Francisco , Hudson's Bay , and the Gulf of Mexico .
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He was always appreciative of agriculture's importance , and himself owned a farm near Peekskill , New York . Mark Twain said that Beecher " was a very inferior farmer when he first began . . . and now he is fast rising from affluence ...
He was always appreciative of agriculture's importance , and himself owned a farm near Peekskill , New York . Mark Twain said that Beecher " was a very inferior farmer when he first began . . . and now he is fast rising from affluence ...
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Contents
Christopher Columbus Turns in a Crop | 3 |
Much More Corne was Planted | 9 |
PERLEY POORE How the Pig Helped to Make Massa | 16 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Harvest: An Anthology of Farm Writing |
| Editor | Wheeler McMillen |
| Publisher | Appleton-Century, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 424 pages |
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