Harvest: An Anthology of Farm WritingWheeler McMillen Appleton-Century, 1964 - 424 pages |
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Page 85
... labor , and greatly exhausts the land . 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 ...
... labor , and greatly exhausts the land . 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 ...
Page 146
... labor is prior to , and independent of , capital ; that , in fact , capital is the fruit of labor , and could never have existed if labor had not first existed - that labor can exist without capital , but that capital could never have ...
... labor is prior to , and independent of , capital ; that , in fact , capital is the fruit of labor , and could never have existed if labor had not first existed - that labor can exist without capital , but that capital could never have ...
Page 147
... labor of the uneducated , in any wise adequate to the support of the whole . It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor . Otherwise , education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil . No country can ...
... labor of the uneducated , in any wise adequate to the support of the whole . It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor . Otherwise , education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil . No country can ...
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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