 | Anthony Deahl - Elkhart County (Ind.) - 1905 - 1062 pages
...education in Goshen. He was only ten years of age when his parents removed to the home farm and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the stock. Later he operated a sawmill upon the farm for six years, and then went to Missouri, where he... | |
 | Samuel Willard Beakes - Washtenaw County (Mich.) - 1906 - 840 pages
...continuing his studies until nineteen years of age. The periods of vacation were devoted to farm work and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. On the expiration of that period he removed to Kansas, where he was employed on a cattle ranch but, seeking... | |
 | Sherman B. Daboll, Dean W. Kelley - Clinton County (Mich.) - 1906 - 588 pages
...purchased his brother's share in the estate. His education was acquired in the common schools and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops so that 24 when he began farming on his own account practical experience enabled him to carefully conduct... | |
 | Henry Park Collin - Branch County (Mich.) - 1906 - 1173 pages
...who died in Kansas in 1893. Joseph P. Farrand, reared upon the old home farm under the parental roof, early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the stock. In the winter months he attended the district schools, wherein he mastered the common branches... | |
 | Lowell H. Glover - Cass County (Mich.) - 1906 - 940 pages
...student in Dowagiac. Through the summer months he assisted in the labors of the field and meadow and became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for stock. He continued to give his father the benfit of his services until the time of his marriage, which... | |
 | Homer Howard Field, Joseph Rea Reed - Pottawattamie County (Iowa) - 1907 - 690 pages
...schools, and when not busy with his text-books he worked with his father on the farm, early becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. In 1894 he bought eighty acres from his father and has since remained on the old homestead. In 1901... | |
 | Lewis M. Gross - De Kalb County (Ill.) - 1907 - 768 pages
...since and is accounted one of the successful agriculturists of the community, thoroughly conversant with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. GE Clarke is the youngest of a family of three sons and one daughter, his sister being Lucy, wife of... | |
 | Hancock County (Ill.) - 1907 - 804 pages
...behind the plow when but a young boy and as the years have passed has gained practical experience in the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He is now conducting the Pine Grove farm, which is a valuable property and which under his careful... | |
 | Abraham J. Baughman - Huron County (Ohio) - 1909 - 590 pages
...was reared in the usual manner of farm lads. He worked in the fields when not busy with his textbooks and early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. In 1908, he purchased his present farm of seventy-eight acres from Daniel Eichenlaub and has since... | |
 | Samuel Gillespie, James E. Steele - Clay County (Iowa) - 1909 - 718 pages
...His training at farm labor was not meager, for at an early age he began work in the fields and soon became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He remained on the home farm with his father until he reached the age of twenty-five years and then... | |
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He early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops through the assistance which he rendered his father upon the home farm. 
