Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-11-29
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The PICTURESQUE Side Of 4naerfcan Farm
Lte-This subject will be treated In series
of separate papers engaged from writers VINO
stand in the front rank among Americans, oosh
in qualities of style and in keen lnsisht Oh
nature. Mr. r. Z. Robinson. author OF a
delightful paper on Fox Hunting IN New
England in the January number, VIII repre-
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Burroughs, whose papers on similar topics
ha 5e been a highly priced and popular feature
OF Scribner wit ,.rite of Farm Life in New
York. Maurice Thompson, the poet natural
;et, will describe the characteristics OF west
sru farming, Of which but little has been
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