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Robert Barnwell Roosevelt. Five Acres Too Much
Five Acres Too Much
Table of Contents
I N T R O D U C T I O N
FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH
CHAPTER I. A COW
CHAPTER II. A HOUSE, PLANS, AND SPECIFICATIONS
CHAPTER III. MORE LIVE-STOCK—A HORSE AND A PIG. WHICH IS THE NOBLER ANIMAL?
CHAPTER IV. THE COUNTRY, AND HOW TO GET THERE
CHAPTER V. A WELL
CHAPTER VI. A KITCHEN GARDEN
CHAPTER VII. THE FLOWER GARDEN
CHAPTER VIII. POULTRY
CHAPTER IX. FALL WORK
CHAPTER X. PROFIT AND LOSS
CHAPTER XI. THE FLUSHING SKATING-POND—A DIGRESSION
CHAPTER XII. THE SECOND YEAR
CHAPTER XIII. SCIENCE
CHAPTER XIV. A SECOND DIGRESSION—FAIRY TALES FOR LITTLE FOLKS
LIVE-GEESE FEATHERS
“LIVE-GEESE FEATHERS.”
CHAPTER XV. NUISANCES, INHUMAN AND HUMAN.—PETS—THE CHARM OF COUNTRY LIFE
CHAPTER XVI. BUTTER-MAKING.—SEEDS AND THE DEVIL
CHAPTER XVII. SUCCESS OF THE YEAR
CHAPTER XVIII. PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL
CHAPTER XIX. A GREAT RUNNER
CHAPTER XX. A BEAUTIFUL NEW COACH
CHAPTER XXI. THREE HUNDRED ACRES NOT ENOUGH
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Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
Published by Good Press, 2019
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About the time that these events occurred, milkmen had concluded that the lacteal fluid—or what they sold for such—was scarce and valuable, and they raised the price to the rate of twelve cents a quart. Our cow, which had been baptized with the name of Cushy, gave about eleven quarts daily, and as the household only needed six, there was a clear opening for profit to the extent of sixty cents a day. Pure milk is rather a rarity—by which is intimated that it is not universal—in the milkmen’s carts in the great city of New York, where that of a watery consistency and cerulean hue is more common than the dull, pale opaque of the real article. In fact, it is said by dairymen that milk just as it comes from the cow is heating—too heating for persons confined to the narrow and unhealthy limits of a city, and should have a little dash of fresh water to take the fire out.
In spite of their convincing arguments, however, an individual was found so little alive to the excellence of the dealer’s milky way as to be ready not merely to pay the current price, but to supply his own cans and send for the milk. This opened a magnificent vista; it was the first of the long series of profits that were to flow in one steady stream from the country place or its accompaniments. If one cow yielded a clear daily income of sixty cents, that a hundred or a thousand would yield proportionally more was merely a question in the rule of three.
