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 páginas |
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... industry , become rich . To be successful in any thing , effort must be directed by intelligence . Fortunes may be stumbled on oc- casionally , but stumbling will be found to be a very precarious dependence . So far as misdirection may ...
... industry , become rich . To be successful in any thing , effort must be directed by intelligence . Fortunes may be stumbled on oc- casionally , but stumbling will be found to be a very precarious dependence . So far as misdirection may ...
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... industry , and virtually placing them side by side with the communities on the Atlantic . During the decade ending in 1860 , the sum of $ 413,541,510 was expended within the limits of the interior AND WHERE TO FIND ONE . 37.
... industry , and virtually placing them side by side with the communities on the Atlantic . During the decade ending in 1860 , the sum of $ 413,541,510 was expended within the limits of the interior AND WHERE TO FIND ONE . 37.
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... industry of the Eastern States , that exchange the fabrics of their workshops for the food of the interior . " By carefully analyzing the $ 8,048,825,840 in question , we find that the six manufacturing States of New England received ...
... industry of the Eastern States , that exchange the fabrics of their workshops for the food of the interior . " By carefully analyzing the $ 8,048,825,840 in question , we find that the six manufacturing States of New England received ...
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... industry , the increased happiness , and the assured peace of the world . " The great metalliferous region of the American Union is found between the Missouri river and the Pacific Ocean . This grand division of the Republic embraces ...
... industry , the increased happiness , and the assured peace of the world . " The great metalliferous region of the American Union is found between the Missouri river and the Pacific Ocean . This grand division of the Republic embraces ...
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... , revolutioned the feelings and industry of the en- tire mass . Emancipation was completely triumphant in every respect . All the forebodings of the re- actionaries have been disappointed . A recent traveller says : 46 HOW TO GET A FARM ,
... , revolutioned the feelings and industry of the en- tire mass . Emancipation was completely triumphant in every respect . All the forebodings of the re- actionaries have been disappointed . A recent traveller says : 46 HOW TO GET A FARM ,
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How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had ... Edmund Morris Visualização integral - 1864 |
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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
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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 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...
Página 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.