The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers, and potatoes. A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corncrib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his... The Economic History of the United States - Page 182by Ernest Ludlow Bogart - 1917 - 597 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Mason Peck - History - 1837 - 396 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the "range," and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of...directed mainly to a crop of corn, and a "truck patch." The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers and potatoes.... | |
| American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 626 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the " range," and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of...directed mainly to a crop of corn and a "truck patch." The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers, and potatoes.... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - Wisconsin - 1892 - 898 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegeta tion, called the 'range,' and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of...directed mainly to a crop of corn and a 'truck patch.' The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers and potatoes.... | |
| Geography - 712 pages
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| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1894 - 884 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegeta tion, called the ' range,' and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of...directed mainly to a crop of corn and a ' truck patch. ' The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers and potatoes.... | |
| American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1894 - 632 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the "range," und the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of his own make, and his efforts directed mainly to u crop of corn and a "truck patch." The last is a rudegardeu for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting... | |
| United States - 1895 - 658 pages
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| National Society for the Study of Education - Education - 1900 - 1068 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the "range," and the proceeds of hunting: His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of...directed mainly to a crop of corn and a "truck patch." The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers, and potatoes.... | |
| Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1907 - 732 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the "range," and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of...directed mainly to a crop of corn and a " truck patch." The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers, and potatoes.... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - American essays - 1915 - 488 pages
...family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the "range," and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of...directed mainly to a crop of corn and a "truck patch." The last is a rude garden for growing cabbage, beans, corn for roasting ears, cucumbers, and potatoes.... | |
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