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Take fifty bushels of wheat , ready for the harvest , standing upon a single acre , and it can be harvested in any of the known ways , with less than half the labor which would be required if it were spread over five acres .
Take fifty bushels of wheat , ready for the harvest , standing upon a single acre , and it can be harvested in any of the known ways , with less than half the labor which would be required if it were spread over five acres .
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They used their boys and girls and women in the harvest field . We hired men who would now be called hobos , but who were really good industrious young fellows out to make money when wages were high . They often followed the harvests ...
They used their boys and girls and women in the harvest field . We hired men who would now be called hobos , but who were really good industrious young fellows out to make money when wages were high . They often followed the harvests ...
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by using their women and children got their harvests in with less expense than was possible by the Yankee way . ... One of our neighbors , a German settler fresh from the old country , took his wife into the harvest field to help with ...
by using their women and children got their harvests in with less expense than was possible by the Yankee way . ... One of our neighbors , a German settler fresh from the old country , took his wife into the harvest field to help with ...
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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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