United States or Spain ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
A restricted number of women who have lived previously on farms and are thoroughly familiar with farming conditions have undertaken farm management successfully. Such women are exceptional and there is no present indication that this employment will be taken up to any large extent by women.
This is, of course, on farms where the tenant has permission to kill the rabbits. Whist and post and pair are the staple indoor amusements. Of all businesses that of agriculture is peculiarly adapted to descend from father to son. In point of fact, farms so frequently pass from the father to the son as to be looked upon almost as a certain inheritance.
It owns about three thousand acres of land within the State of New York, besides some farms in other states; and several of its farms in its own neighborhood are in charge of tenants. The different families employ a considerable number of hired laborers. They raise and put up garden seeds, make brooms, dry medicinal herbs and make extracts, dry sweet corn, and make chairs and mops.
All my life I have had visions of farms with flocks and herds, but I did not expect to realize my visions until I came on earth a second time. I would never have given up my profession voluntarily; but when it gave me up, I had to accept the dismissal, surrender my ambitions, and fall back upon my primary instinct for diversion and happiness.
There are also wonderful pine-woods, fields, and extensive meadows, birds of various kinds, and honey, and all the different metals except iron. In the island, which I have said before was called Hispana, there are very lofty and beautiful mountains, great farms, groves and fields, most fertile both for cultivation and for pasturage, and well adapted for constructing buildings.
It still sheltered, too, old Deacon Israel Sawyer's carryall and mowing-machine, with his pung, his sleigh, and a dozen other survivals of an earlier era, when the broad acres of the brick house went to make one of the finest farms in Riverboro.
Whole districts of territory, with all their villages, farms, and churches, were rent from their places, borne along by the force of the waves, sometimes to be lodged in another part of the country, sometimes to be entirely engulfed. Multitudes of men, women, children, of horses, oxen, sheep, and every domestic animal, were struggling in the waves in every direction.
Red Fox, if ever I hold you at a gun's end, the Lord have pity upon ye!" He declares all the farms to let. "Well," said I, "what followed?" Alan laid down his pipe, which he had long since suffered to go out, and set his two hands upon his knees. "Ay," said he, "ye'll never guess that! "Well, Alan," said I, "that is a strange story, and a fine one too.
He could not have conceived of a man's being lost in that broad country at that season; but my father was a man of hills and farms, all small, compact. The plains were another planet to him. "The letter was found in the keeper's clothing after his death; no one ever came to claim it of his successor. Somewhere in this great wilderness a tired man found rest.
"I wouldn't like the laird to think I spend my time on poetry." "You write poetry, Andrew! A man should not do what he would not have known." "That is true, ma'am; I only feared an erroneous conclusion." "I will take care of that. My father knows that you are a hard-working young man. There is not one of his farms in better order than yours.
Word Of The Day