Five Acres Too Much A truthful elucidation of the attractions of the country, and a careful consideration of the question of profit and loss as involved in amateur farming, with much valuable advice and instruction to those about purchasing large or small places in the rural districts

CHAPTER XVI.

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BUTTER-MAKING. SEEDS AND THE DEVIL.

Butter-making in all its Attractions.--The Cream unequal to the Emergency.--Some Things can’t be Done as well as Others.--Electrical Phenomena.--Gathering Seed.--Incidental Reference to Satan and his Works.--not his agricultural ones.....216