Harvest: An Anthology of Farm WritingWheeler McMillen Appleton-Century, 1964 - 424 pages |
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Page 397
... springs , from which water oozes all summer long . And the bluegrass and white clover of the steep little pasture ... spring over which the first settler , John Ferguson , built his little cabin more than a century and a half ago now ...
... springs , from which water oozes all summer long . And the bluegrass and white clover of the steep little pasture ... spring over which the first settler , John Ferguson , built his little cabin more than a century and a half ago now ...
Page 398
... spring happened to all the other twenty- odd springs on the place . As the forest was turned back to Nature , the hills contoured and stripped , the earth kept covered in winter by an even green blanket of wheat or rye , the water no ...
... spring happened to all the other twenty- odd springs on the place . As the forest was turned back to Nature , the hills contoured and stripped , the earth kept covered in winter by an even green blanket of wheat or rye , the water no ...
Page 399
... spring , we made a remarkable discovery . In ex- cavating , we uncovered the original site of the spring beneath nearly six feet of topsoil which had eroded from the fields above and buried it completely , forcing the newborn spring to ...
... spring , we made a remarkable discovery . In ex- cavating , we uncovered the original site of the spring beneath nearly six feet of topsoil which had eroded from the fields above and buried it completely , forcing the newborn spring to ...
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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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