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It is better to be smarter than you appear than to appear smarter than you are; It is better to give than to receive; It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; It is better to cultivate a Land with two Bulls, rather working under Boss who never gives Wage when asked; It is better to light a candle than curse the ...
The cover of the 1793 edition. The first Old Farmer's Almanac, then known as The Farmer's Almanac, was edited by Robert Bailey Thomas, the publication's founder. [6]There were many competing almanacs in the 18th century, but Thomas's book was a success. [6]
At least 11 separate regions of the Old and New World were involved as independent centers of origin. [35] Some of the earliest known domestications were of animals. Domestic pigs had multiple centres of origin in Eurasia, including Europe, East Asia and Southwest Asia, [36] where wild boar were first domesticated about 10,500 years ago. [37]
The publication states the information was gathered in 1978 and is still just as relevant today as it was 46 years ago. That would make sense, but it brings up the question, was it actually ...
Sawers (2005) shows how southern farmers made the mule their preferred draft animal in the South during the 1860s–1920s, primarily because it fit better with the region's geography. Mules better withstood the heat of summer, and their smaller size and hooves were well suited for such crops as cotton, tobacco, and sugar.
Paul Harvey ran a similar article in the column "A Point of View" for the Gadsden Times on August 26, 1975. [9] Entitled "What it is to be a farmer", the article did not contain the concept of God creating the farmer seen in his 1978 speech, but he still described the characteristics of a farmer. [9]
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Among the Hidatsa, typical of Great Plains farmers, fields were cleared by burning which also fertilized the soil. The three implements used by Indian farmers were the digging stick, hoe, and rake. The digging stick was a sharpened and fire-hardened stick, three or more feet long, that was used to loosen soil, uproot weeds, and make planting holes.