Harvest: An Anthology of Farm WritingWheeler McMillen Appleton-Century, 1964 - 424 pages |
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Page 102
... earth is the most im- portant labor of man . Man may be civilized , in some degree , without great progress in manufactures and with little commerce with his distant neighbors . But without the cultivation of the earth , he is , in all ...
... earth is the most im- portant labor of man . Man may be civilized , in some degree , without great progress in manufactures and with little commerce with his distant neighbors . But without the cultivation of the earth , he is , in all ...
Page 303
... earth ! How patient he was with the untillable hills , Pulling and burning the stumps and roots , Picking and laying the stone In great walls around the fields To protect his husbandry . And most of his acres were hemlock soil , too ...
... earth ! How patient he was with the untillable hills , Pulling and burning the stumps and roots , Picking and laying the stone In great walls around the fields To protect his husbandry . And most of his acres were hemlock soil , too ...
Page 398
... earth in winter with cover crops and turned much of the land back to sod , so that the falling rain no longer ran off the high hill above , but sank into the earth to accumulate deep in the strata of the underlying sandstone . And so ...
... earth in winter with cover crops and turned much of the land back to sod , so that the falling rain no longer ran off the high hill above , but sank into the earth to accumulate deep in the strata of the underlying sandstone . And so ...
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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