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To make you understand the fertility of the soil , I will explain briefly how the natives prepare the ground and how they go about the planting . They never enrich the soil with refuse , dung , or any other thing , nor do they plough or ...
To make you understand the fertility of the soil , I will explain briefly how the natives prepare the ground and how they go about the planting . They never enrich the soil with refuse , dung , or any other thing , nor do they plough or ...
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Of this I can assure you , for according to our experiments we found that one man may prepare and cultivate as much ground ( which has borne corn before ) with less than twenty - four hours ' labor as will supply him food in abundance ...
Of this I can assure you , for according to our experiments we found that one man may prepare and cultivate as much ground ( which has borne corn before ) with less than twenty - four hours ' labor as will supply him food in abundance ...
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Are to remain as they are , but nothing suffered to run upon them ; as ground will be allotted for the sole purpose of Pasturage , and invariably used as such . Clover - Lots No. 1 Counting from the Spring branch , is to be planted in ...
Are to remain as they are , but nothing suffered to run upon them ; as ground will be allotted for the sole purpose of Pasturage , and invariably used as such . Clover - Lots No. 1 Counting from the Spring branch , is to be planted in ...
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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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