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He sees farmers congratulating themselves upon nine and ten sacks of wheat to the acre , where in the old days nothing less than fourteen or fifteen would suffice - why , they once grew fifteen sacks of wheat to the acre on the ...
He sees farmers congratulating themselves upon nine and ten sacks of wheat to the acre , where in the old days nothing less than fourteen or fifteen would suffice - why , they once grew fifteen sacks of wheat to the acre on the ...
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The head shepherd is a legend of the past ; where the drowner once regulated his water - meadows , the dykes are choked up , the control of pasturages abandoned , the flooding left to the whims of the river , whose blessings are mixed ...
The head shepherd is a legend of the past ; where the drowner once regulated his water - meadows , the dykes are choked up , the control of pasturages abandoned , the flooding left to the whims of the river , whose blessings are mixed ...
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When he compares the average family farm of to - day with what it once was , he has scant respect for the man who owns it . The farmer of the old days was in the farmhouse by an unassailable right — the right born of his knowledge of ...
When he compares the average family farm of to - day with what it once was , he has scant respect for the man who owns it . The farmer of the old days was in the farmhouse by an unassailable right — the right born of his knowledge of ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 289 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1951 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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