Ever since the revolt of the British colonies nullified the royal prohibition of the settlement of the Ohio valley, the frontier line of our population has been moving steadily westward, passing over one, two, and even three degrees of longitude in a... Report - Page 353by New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1884Full view - About this book
| 1882 - 376 pages
...theory, or even speculation, that is truly and distinctively its own. JW DAWSON. AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. IT* is proposed in this paper to take a general view...to inquire what have been its methods and what it has accomplished. The subject may be treated under the following titles : 1. As to the tenure of the... | |
| William Addison Phillips - 1886 - 508 pages
...remarks in the " Statisties of Agriculture," General Walker says, that " the amount of arable land still remaining subject to occupation under the homestead...the demand of settlers for a year or two to come." * What then ? Of those who must live by farming, not much less than half of the agricultural population... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1899 - 506 pages
...NATIONAL GROWTH AMERICAN AGRICULTURE Prineetuu Review, VOL. 9 (1888), PP. 249-64 AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. IT is proposed in this paper to take a general view...and Preemption Acts is barely sufficient to meet the demands of settlers for a year or two to come. This would seem a fitting point from which to review... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1899 - 518 pages
...American agriculture. Ever since the revolt of the British colonies nullified the royal prohibition if the settlement of the Ohio valley, the frontier line...and Preemption Acts is barely sufficient to meet the demands of settlers for a year or two to come. This would seem a fitting point from which to review... | |
| Charles Jesse Bullock - 1907 - 732 pages
...two, and even three degrees, of longitude in a decade, until now it rests at the base of the IJocky mountains. The report of the Public Land Commission...course of American agriculture through the last hundred 1 By Francis A. Walker. Reprinted from Tenth Census, III, xxxi-xxxiii. This first appeared in the Princeton... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 pages
...in a decade, until now it rests at the base of the Rocky mountains. The report of the public lands commission to Congress, just issued from the press,...amount of arable lands still remaining subject to the occupation under the homestead and preemption acts is barely sufficient to meet the demand of settlers... | |
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