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To speak entirely within bounds , it is known that fifty bushels of wheat , or one hundred bushels of Indian corn can be produced from an acre . Less than a year ago I saw it stated that a man , by extraordinary care and ...
To speak entirely within bounds , it is known that fifty bushels of wheat , or one hundred bushels of Indian corn can be produced from an acre . Less than a year ago I saw it stated that a man , by extraordinary care and ...
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W. W. Christman W. W. Christman ( 1865-1937 ) was a farmer on a hundred acres of hillside land in Schenectady County , New York . At sixty , after raising and schooling nine children , he began writing poetry .
W. W. Christman W. W. Christman ( 1865-1937 ) was a farmer on a hundred acres of hillside land in Schenectady County , New York . At sixty , after raising and schooling nine children , he began writing poetry .
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It comes , much of it , from the water caught and held on the little plateau a quarter of a mile away and nearly two hundred feet higher up , and from the rain held by the sod and mulch among the grapes and apple trees and raspberries ...
It comes , much of it , from the water caught and held on the little plateau a quarter of a mile away and nearly two hundred feet higher up , and from the rain held by the sod and mulch among the grapes and apple trees and raspberries ...
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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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