Harvest: An Anthology of Farm WritingWheeler McMillen Appleton-Century, 1964 - 424 pages |
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Page 200
... turn the damned thing . On a chair , beside her , would be the salt and pepper in bowls , but the sage was in the bag it was cured in . My mother was proud of her ability to mix the seasonings just right . She knew the amount of sage to ...
... turn the damned thing . On a chair , beside her , would be the salt and pepper in bowls , but the sage was in the bag it was cured in . My mother was proud of her ability to mix the seasonings just right . She knew the amount of sage to ...
Page 370
... turn the money over ; that way you will have money all the rest of the year . All these and many more of the fringe - line credo can be disproved at will and oftentimes unavoidably . Mamma granted as much . She merely noted gently and ...
... turn the money over ; that way you will have money all the rest of the year . All these and many more of the fringe - line credo can be disproved at will and oftentimes unavoidably . Mamma granted as much . She merely noted gently and ...
Page 397
... turn it into the richest of soils . At any time of the year , you can dig beneath the mulch and sod and find the soil loose and moist . And all the moisture does not come from the rain which falls directly upon it . It comes , much of ...
... turn it into the richest of soils . At any time of the year , you can dig beneath the mulch and sod and find the soil loose and moist . And all the moisture does not come from the rain which falls directly upon it . It comes , much of ...
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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