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 |
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Side 105
... tree they planted became an investment for their own exclus- ive benefit . In every furrow they turned , some golden particles were discoverable at the bottom . Every spoonful of manure they bought or manufac- tured , was equivalent to ...
... tree they planted became an investment for their own exclus- ive benefit . In every furrow they turned , some golden particles were discoverable at the bottom . Every spoonful of manure they bought or manufac- tured , was equivalent to ...
Side 114
... trees , may , with skilful hands , be made to increase the product to an almost indefinite extent . seasons . “ We have heard wealthy farmers assert , that not over two per cent . on the cost of their farms and the capital to stock them ...
... trees , may , with skilful hands , be made to increase the product to an almost indefinite extent . seasons . “ We have heard wealthy farmers assert , that not over two per cent . on the cost of their farms and the capital to stock them ...
Side 118
... trees will come into bearing ; and you will have at least twice the produce to turn off six or seven years hence , that you can spare the first year . " As to drudgery , —a man who aspires to earn a good living and rear and educate a ...
... trees will come into bearing ; and you will have at least twice the produce to turn off six or seven years hence , that you can spare the first year . " As to drudgery , —a man who aspires to earn a good living and rear and educate a ...
Side 119
... trees which are the most heavily laden , are seen to bend the lowest . The urchin's impudence represents the national pro- pensity - we must have the best . But what we may conceive to be the best for us , frequently turns out otherwise ...
... trees which are the most heavily laden , are seen to bend the lowest . The urchin's impudence represents the national pro- pensity - we must have the best . But what we may conceive to be the best for us , frequently turns out otherwise ...
Side 125
... trees of other va- rieties . In some places where there was a slight rise in the land , it was firm and solid . I drew his attention to this circumstance , as proving that if the water could be as effectually drained away from the whole ...
... trees of other va- rieties . In some places where there was a slight rise in the land , it was firm and solid . I drew his attention to this circumstance , as proving that if the water could be as effectually drained away from the whole ...
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How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had ... Edmund Morris Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
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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 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...
Side 20 - That the register of the land office shall note all such applications on the tract books and plats of his office, and keep a register of all such entries, and make return thereof to the General Land Office, together with the proof upon which they have been founded.