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These hills are to be manured as highly as the means will admit ; and the Corn planted every year in the middle of the Rows of the preceeding year ; by doing which , and mixing the Manure and Earth by the Plow and other workings ...
These hills are to be manured as highly as the means will admit ; and the Corn planted every year in the middle of the Rows of the preceeding year ; by doing which , and mixing the Manure and Earth by the Plow and other workings ...
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I do not think it probable that farm implements will be improved very much , although doubtless on the larger farms means will be devised to perform certain operations by electricity or steam . Nor do I lay any stress upon the possible ...
I do not think it probable that farm implements will be improved very much , although doubtless on the larger farms means will be devised to perform certain operations by electricity or steam . Nor do I lay any stress upon the possible ...
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A red sunset means clearing weather a yellow sunset , rain or worry . Thunder in February means frost in May . If a chicken's tail feathers spread in the wind , that is a sign of rain . A whitish halo around the moon foretells rain or ...
A red sunset means clearing weather a yellow sunset , rain or worry . Thunder in February means frost in May . If a chicken's tail feathers spread in the wind , that is a sign of rain . A whitish halo around the moon foretells rain or ...
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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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