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From the best estimate I have been enabled to form , more than one - half of the corn crop is consumed by horses , including the ungrown ones ; and not less than one - half by other than pleasure horses . By getting free from this ...
From the best estimate I have been enabled to form , more than one - half of the corn crop is consumed by horses , including the ungrown ones ; and not less than one - half by other than pleasure horses . By getting free from this ...
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It is certain that thorough cultivation would spare half or more than half , the cost of land , simply because the same product would be got from half , or from less than half the quantity of land . This proposition is selfevident ...
It is certain that thorough cultivation would spare half or more than half , the cost of land , simply because the same product would be got from half , or from less than half the quantity of land . This proposition is selfevident ...
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If any man aspire to the title of dirt farmer , let him measure himself by this standardhe must have worn out two pairs of overalls growing cotton enough for one ; he must regularly do half a day's work before the sun comes up and ...
If any man aspire to the title of dirt farmer , let him measure himself by this standardhe must have worn out two pairs of overalls growing cotton enough for one ; he must regularly do half a day's work before the sun comes up and ...
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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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