Iowa as it is in 1856; a gazeteer for citizens, and handbook for emigrants, etc. [With plates.]Keen and Lee, 1856 - Počet stran: 12 |
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... corn ; and where the owlet ooted to the solitude , the cabin - smoke is floating on the air . Wherever the highway winds , the ever - recurring marks of cheerful industry- of progress of prosperity - greet the traveller's eye , till one ...
... corn ; and where the owlet ooted to the solitude , the cabin - smoke is floating on the air . Wherever the highway winds , the ever - recurring marks of cheerful industry- of progress of prosperity - greet the traveller's eye , till one ...
Strana 22
... corn and fences with the wild prairie , and forfeit their year's toil as a penalty for their slothfulness ! CHAPTER III . THE SOIL . Ir is well known to the scientific farmer , that the land best suited to wheat and most small grains ...
... corn and fences with the wild prairie , and forfeit their year's toil as a penalty for their slothfulness ! CHAPTER III . THE SOIL . Ir is well known to the scientific farmer , that the land best suited to wheat and most small grains ...
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... corn is dropped in the furrows , covered with a hoe , and thus left to be gathered . Several other modes of corn- planting may be worthy of mention ; one of which is per- formed by striking an axe into the sod and dropping the corn into ...
... corn is dropped in the furrows , covered with a hoe , and thus left to be gathered . Several other modes of corn- planting may be worthy of mention ; one of which is per- formed by striking an axe into the sod and dropping the corn into ...
Strana 35
... corn . Neither the yield nor the grain is very good the first season ; but sufficient to reward amply the labor of planting and gathering . By the ensuing spring , the roots of the wild grass are completely rotted , and the rich , light ...
... corn . Neither the yield nor the grain is very good the first season ; but sufficient to reward amply the labor of planting and gathering . By the ensuing spring , the roots of the wild grass are completely rotted , and the rich , light ...
Strana 64
... Corn , Oats , Potatoes and Onions . " Our wheat is sown in March , and our corn planted the last of April and first of May . But little winter wheat is grown here ; the light snows are insufficient to protect it from winter - killing ...
... Corn , Oats , Potatoes and Onions . " Our wheat is sown in March , and our corn planted the last of April and first of May . But little winter wheat is grown here ; the light snows are insufficient to protect it from winter - killing ...
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