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desideratum - especially a Steam Plow . It is not enough , that a machine operated by steam , will really plow . To be successful , it must , all things considered , plow better than can be done with animal power .
desideratum - especially a Steam Plow . It is not enough , that a machine operated by steam , will really plow . To be successful , it must , all things considered , plow better than can be done with animal power .
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Ah , there is the secret of good plowing , of good living , of the good man ; he is resolved that that plow shall not wobble a hair's breadth to the left nor to the right , shall not go a quarter of an inch too deep nor too shallow ...
Ah , there is the secret of good plowing , of good living , of the good man ; he is resolved that that plow shall not wobble a hair's breadth to the left nor to the right , shall not go a quarter of an inch too deep nor too shallow ...
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“ I never knew a May when the plowing could be put off so long , or stretched out so far , ” said the farmer . You have to ride the plow to understand just what it is about plowing that keeps farmers farming spring after spring ...
“ I never knew a May when the plowing could be put off so long , or stretched out so far , ” said the farmer . You have to ride the plow to understand just what it is about plowing that keeps farmers farming spring after spring ...
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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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