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 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 42
Página 13
... of trade , that a thing cheaply purchased is already half sold . Apply it to the acquisition of land . The man desirous of obtaining a farm seeks to obtain the greatest number of acres for the smallest amount of money.
... of trade , that a thing cheaply purchased is already half sold . Apply it to the acquisition of land . The man desirous of obtaining a farm seeks to obtain the greatest number of acres for the smallest amount of money.
Página 14
... amount of money . It is as much the governing principle of the rich as of the poor . Common sense , sharpened by long habit , teaches it to the former , but necessity teaches it to the latter . But it happens that the poor of this ...
... amount of money . It is as much the governing principle of the rich as of the poor . Common sense , sharpened by long habit , teaches it to the former , but necessity teaches it to the latter . But it happens that the poor of this ...
Página 22
... amount was increased to nearly a million and a half . But the great bulk of enterprising and ad- venturous Americans have either been drawn into the army or been too much occupied at home by the pressure of business forced upon them by ...
... amount was increased to nearly a million and a half . But the great bulk of enterprising and ad- venturous Americans have either been drawn into the army or been too much occupied at home by the pressure of business forced upon them by ...
Página 36
... amounts of property held by religious , educational , charitable , and other associations , exempted by law from taxation , nor any public property of any description . In actual practice , the real property 36 HOW TO GET A FARM ,
... amounts of property held by religious , educational , charitable , and other associations , exempted by law from taxation , nor any public property of any description . In actual practice , the real property 36 HOW TO GET A FARM ,
Página 37
... amounts of personal property , being easily con- cealed , escape assessment altogether . " The assessed value of that portion of property which is thus actually taxed increased as follows : In 1791 ( esti- mated ) , $ 750,000,000 ; 1816 ...
... amounts of personal property , being easily con- cealed , escape assessment altogether . " The assessed value of that portion of property which is thus actually taxed increased as follows : In 1791 ( esti- mated ) , $ 750,000,000 ; 1816 ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...