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he has but one son ; I will lease them an hundred acres for any term of years you please , and make it more valuable to your Scotchman than if he was possessed of the fee simple . By that means he may , with what little money he has ...
he has but one son ; I will lease them an hundred acres for any term of years you please , and make it more valuable to your Scotchman than if he was possessed of the fee simple . By that means he may , with what little money he has ...
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The brag crop I heard of in our vicinity was two thousand bushels from ninety acres . Many crops were thrashed , producing no more than three bushels to the acre ; much was cut , and then abandoned as not worth threshing ; and much was ...
The brag crop I heard of in our vicinity was two thousand bushels from ninety acres . Many crops were thrashed , producing no more than three bushels to the acre ; much was cut , and then abandoned as not worth threshing ; and much was ...
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... the application of every acre of our vast territory to the particular uses for which it is best adapted will add ... and their immediate descendants will be a farm of many broad fertile acres in the United States of America .
... the application of every acre of our vast territory to the particular uses for which it is best adapted will add ... and their immediate descendants will be a farm of many broad fertile acres in the United States of America .
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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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