Notes on Fields and Cattle from the Diary of an Amateur Farmer. To which is appended a prize essay on time of entry on farms, reprinted ... from the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England

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Bradbury & Evans, 1870 - 223 páginas
 

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