How to make a country place; an account of the successes and the mistakes of an amateur in thirty-five years of farming, building and development: together with a practical plan for securing a home and an independent income, starting with small capital (1914)
Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway. [from old catalog] · New York, Orange Judd company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 139
e bank mortgage, and giving a severedrubbing to the wolf that stands ever at the door of mans domicile.His dream of a home embowered in apple blossoms gives him patienceand courage to put up with the old house a while longer,and tends to dissipate the occasional depression caused by muddy… … THE SITE OF HILLCREST HOUSEAS IT LOOKED BEFORE WE DUG THE CELLAR blossom-dream lures him on until he awakens to realize that appleblossoms last but one week of the fifty-two, that insects and fungiblight and disfigure, that a lawn is impossible, as grass growsunevenly and sparsely under the…
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