How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had by Those Desirous of Securing Them: with the Public Law on the Subject of Free Homes, and Suggestions from Practical FarmersJ. Miller, 1864 - 345 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 36
Side 105
... manure they bought or manufac- tured , was equivalent to a fund invested at more than compound interest . There are hundreds of poor farms now held by their owners because no buyers can be found . Men in search of land should seek them ...
... manure they bought or manufac- tured , was equivalent to a fund invested at more than compound interest . There are hundreds of poor farms now held by their owners because no buyers can be found . Men in search of land should seek them ...
Side 111
... manure as a sieve for holding water . But deep ploughing and heavy manuring with fertilizers , man- ufactured on the premises by hogs and cattle , have brought it up to yielding thirty bushels of wheat per Patience and perseverance ...
... manure as a sieve for holding water . But deep ploughing and heavy manuring with fertilizers , man- ufactured on the premises by hogs and cattle , have brought it up to yielding thirty bushels of wheat per Patience and perseverance ...
Side 112
... manure . It is well fenced , but the build- ings are worth nothing . It has been badly cultivated , with- out any kind of manuring . It rents for $ 50 a year , and may be bought for $ 1,000 , on easy terms , say $ 100 cash , and the ...
... manure . It is well fenced , but the build- ings are worth nothing . It has been badly cultivated , with- out any kind of manuring . It rents for $ 50 a year , and may be bought for $ 1,000 , on easy terms , say $ 100 cash , and the ...
Side 115
... manure , selected seed , and good cultivation ; and where only two hundred bushels of carrots or rutabagas were ordinarily yielded , six to eight hundred have been obtained by performing every part of the operation promptly , in the ...
... manure , selected seed , and good cultivation ; and where only two hundred bushels of carrots or rutabagas were ordinarily yielded , six to eight hundred have been obtained by performing every part of the operation promptly , in the ...
Side 116
... manure . Both are costly items , but they are indispensable to success . The great question is how to command them in the largest abundance at the smallest cost . It is granted , on all hands , that the soil should be saturated with manure ...
... manure . Both are costly items , but they are indispensable to success . The great question is how to command them in the largest abundance at the smallest cost . It is granted , on all hands , that the soil should be saturated with manure ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had ... Edmund Morris Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
acres advantage agricultural amount better blackberries bought bushels capital cash cent cheap Colburn commenced corn cost course cranberry crop Cross drains cultivation Delaware ditch dollars drains Egg Harbor City England enterprise farm farmers fences fertile five fruit give half Hammonton Homestead hundred Illinois Illinois Central Railroad improved increase industry labor less live Long Island manure means ment miles millions Missouri river nearly Northern obtain owner Philadelphia plants plough poor population portion possession potatoes prairie produce profit purchase quantity railroad rebellion region rent rich run in debt season sell settlement settlers slave slavery soil sold South square miles success Sussex county swamp thing thousand tillage timber tion tract trees vast Vineland wealth West wheat whole worth yield York young