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 Farmers : Together with Numerous Successful, Experiences of Others, Though Beginning with Little of Nothing, Have Recome the Owners of Ample FarmsJames Miller, (successor to C.S. Francis & Company) 522 Broadway, 1864 - 345 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 13
Side 23
... remain at home . But when the country shall have become entirely at peace , and when the provisions of the Homestead Law shall be thoroughly known in Europe , we may look with confidence for a revival of the vast stream of immigration ...
... remain at home . But when the country shall have become entirely at peace , and when the provisions of the Homestead Law shall be thoroughly known in Europe , we may look with confidence for a revival of the vast stream of immigration ...
Side 35
... remain .. 41,926,750 1,207,624 40,719,126 " Mr. Kennedy , the experienced Superintendent of the census , in the Compend published in 1862 , at page 7 , esti- mates the population of 1870 at 42,318,432 , and of 1880 , at 56,450,241 . The ...
... remain .. 41,926,750 1,207,624 40,719,126 " Mr. Kennedy , the experienced Superintendent of the census , in the Compend published in 1862 , at page 7 , esti- mates the population of 1870 at 42,318,432 , and of 1880 , at 56,450,241 . The ...
Side 72
... remain without a family until he is able to purchase a farm and see his way clear to pay for it . While working out , it is not convenient to have a family , but almost indis- pensable when working a farm upon shares . F. says that when ...
... remain without a family until he is able to purchase a farm and see his way clear to pay for it . While working out , it is not convenient to have a family , but almost indis- pensable when working a farm upon shares . F. says that when ...
Side 81
... remain single . For instance , if they remain single , and are sick , all income is stopped , while if either is sick when married , and on a farm , crops and ani- mals are still growing , and there is one ( if only one is sick ) to ...
... remain single . For instance , if they remain single , and are sick , all income is stopped , while if either is sick when married , and on a farm , crops and ani- mals are still growing , and there is one ( if only one is sick ) to ...
Side 115
... labor . An animal will grow if generously fed ; if not , he must remain nearly stationary . If not fed at all , he will assuredly die of starvation . It is pre- cisely so with agriculture . Crops must be fed , AND WHERE TO FIND ONE . 115.
... labor . An animal will grow if generously fed ; if not , he must remain nearly stationary . If not fed at all , he will assuredly die of starvation . It is pre- cisely so with agriculture . Crops must be fed , AND WHERE TO FIND ONE . 115.
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
acres agricultural amount barrels better blackberries bought bushels capital cattle cent cheap Colburn commenced corn cost cranberry crop Cross drains cultivation Delaware ditch dollars drains Egg Harbor City England enterprise farmers fences fertile five fruit garden give half Hammonton Homestead hundred Illinois Illinois Central Railroad improved increase industry Jersey labor live Long Island manure means ment miles millions Missouri river nearly Northern owners Philadelphia planted plough poor population portion possession potatoes prairie produce profit purchase quantity railroad rebellion region rent rich run in debt season sell settled 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
Populære avsnitt
Side 324 - In traversing that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers, fox-tail and broomsedge ; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty villages, and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy nomes for a dozen white...
Side 18 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Side 19 - That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry — or if he be dead, his widow ; or, in case of her death...
Side 21 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...
Side 18 - ... person may have filed a pre-emption claim, or which may at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar and twenty-five cents...
Side 19 - ... will bear true allegiance to the Government of the United States; then, in such case, he, she, or they, if at that time citizens of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided by law.
Side 172 - The first thing that drew his attention was a heap of coals shot out of carts on the pavement before a house. He offered himself to shovel or wheel them into the place where they were to be laid, and was employed.
Side 20 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Side 18 - ... at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed...