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 83
Yes, one edged our farm. It had an individuality of its own.For years the neighbors had called it Break Neck, Sheep,or Hog Hill, the usual names for a back country hill. Nar-rower than the highway, the tree tops sometimes came togetherand skill was needed by the passer-by to avoid cat-briers… … FIVE VIEWPOINTS ON THE FARM. GODS FIRST TEMPLES 65 country life had fullest sway. In early spring its borders wereyellowed by the spice bush, and in the fall the bloom of the yellowwitch hazel brightened and the stag-horned sumach reddened eachrocky weed-grown hillock. Occasionally some city friend…
Farm life · Farm buildings · Architecture, Domestic
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