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Land filled with roots , covered with litter , aided by buried bushes forming covered drains , protected against the wounds of swine and hoofs , and replenished sex - ennially with the coarse manure of the farm and stable yards ...
Land filled with roots , covered with litter , aided by buried bushes forming covered drains , protected against the wounds of swine and hoofs , and replenished sex - ennially with the coarse manure of the farm and stable yards ...
Page 292
At that time the plan called for covering the carcasses with five feet of the heavy , black clay soil peculiar to the Houston area , but later on another method was substituted in which the bodies were drenched with oil and burned .
At that time the plan called for covering the carcasses with five feet of the heavy , black clay soil peculiar to the Houston area , but later on another method was substituted in which the bodies were drenched with oil and burned .
Page 398
As the forest was turned back to Nature , the hills contoured and stripped , the earth kept covered in winter by an even green blanket of wheat or rye , the water no longer ran off the four farms , carrying with it the precious topsoil ...
As the forest was turned back to Nature , the hills contoured and stripped , the earth kept covered in winter by an even green blanket of wheat or rye , the water no longer ran off the four farms , carrying with it the precious topsoil ...
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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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