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| 例句 | He and his wife came to Argyle in 1983, when they bought the 140 acres, 40 of them tillable, that made up Slack Hollow Farm. For These New York Farmers, Harvest Time Means High Times 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z And he saw development gobbling up tillable acres. More Missouri landowners rent out farm land 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Byers said the property was attractive for its mixture of wooded and tillable acres. Ingham County pays millions to protect farming 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Early Americans drained these swamps to acquire civilization’s most essential resource: tillable land with friable soil. The Only Way to ‘Drain the Swamp’ for Good 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Apart from a smattering of large, paramilitary-run state farms around the nation’s periphery, practically all of China’s tillable land remains divvied into these morsels. Can China Reform Its Agriculture Industry Fast Enough to Feed Its People? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The imbalance is attributed to the fact that tillable farmland, such as the property retained by Summit, is far more valuable than timberland, which better describes most of the acreage sold to Leath. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z He said the company identified a potential property in Hardin County that included river frontage, timber and tillable farmland. Board: Sale of land to Iowa State president a private matter 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The auction company website shows 168 acres of tillable ground, 61 wooded acres, 16 non-tillable acres and nine acres included with the house. The 254 acres of Mallard Lake farm set for auction 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “If the solar thing doesn’t work out after five years, 10 years and they have to decommission, we have to put it into tillable acres.” Soybeans to solar: Boom is boon for Minnesota landowners 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Renting out the tillable land, an owner could clear about $3,300 after taxes; raising pastured beef, they could get nearly $10,000, although there’s more work involved. Farmers turn to cattle grazing to improve soil, bottom lines 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z “Of the 79 acres, about 40 are tillable.” St. Augusta family to end pumpkin farm tradition 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Bell says well over half of Minnesota’s nearly 80,000 square miles of land is tillable. Minnesota soil researcher digs dirt 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Throughout many of the commonwealths there are vast stretches of level plateaus with scarcely a hill or woodland in sight, and yet covered with a rich, tillable soil. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z There are greater natural resources, a richer soil, and more tillable ground. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z To augment the 40 acres of hillside pasture, Ofte seeded about 28 acres of tillable land with grass and alfalfa. Farmers turn to cattle grazing to improve soil, bottom lines 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z For this purpose zones of tillable land are set apart in the districts named. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z In the sterile little mountainous canton of Glarus, in Switzerland, there was, about 1844, much distress because of over population; the tillable land was insufficient to raise food for all the people. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z At the end of the third year a new field had been hewed into the forest and the land first cleared had become more easily tillable. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z Parallel with the effort to extend the tillable land, everything has been done to increase the productivity of the soil under cultivation. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z Its banks afford but a small proportion of tillable lands, being bordered with rocks and sterile hills. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Upon the maintenance, unimpaired in quantity and quality, of the tillable area of the country its whole future is conditioned. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Four of the ten acres are tillable and the rest in timber. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Saskatchewan Crops.—Saskatchewan leads all other provinces in wheat production, though only a comparatively small portion of its tillable area is under cultivation. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z In recent years the Government undertook a thorough examination of the tillable land in the country and reported as a result that there is yet a possibility of reclaiming about five million acres. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z The district of tillable land on this river, like many others west of the Mississippi, is chiefly confined to its banks. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Thus the tillable land in public ownership, within and without the National Forest, should be disposed of in fee simple to actual settlers, but never to speculators. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z There is not much tillable land in these mountains, Bruce, but there, along that little stream, there are almost five sections—three thousand acres—of as rich land as was ever plowed. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Judging from his physique he might have managed the tillable acres of his Swamp Farm with one hand. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z It has already been made clear that only 16 per cent., or fifteen million acres, of the land of Japan proper is tillable. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z Seventeen families had no more tillable land than four could tend. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 In our country to-day we have vast areas of useless land, only waiting to be transformed into tillable acres second in richness to no land in the country. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 If they were on tillable land I could make them self-supporting in two years, but this land is arid as a desert. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop He had surveyed for drains through a field that had never grown much but bulrushes, and Billy had another two acres of black loam added to his tillable area. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Only about one-tenth of this area tillable land. An Artilleryman's Diary How Tillable Soil Is Made.—The action of plants themselves has a great effect in adding to our supply of tillable soil. A Living from the Land They take away from the area of tillable soil, and add it to waste and unprofitable districts. An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem It is impossible to say with accuracy what part of the state may properly be classed as tillable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" A college year leaves considerable free time in the twelve months, and Billy managed somehow to keep the tillable acres of the farm under crop and to harvest what he planted. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z As a consequence, the greater portion of tillable ground is held by the chief, who has neither the sense nor energy to direct the steps for a proper development of the soil. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia In a new country lands most easily accessible and readily tillable are chosen first. Rural Health and Welfare Other government settlers were wont to remark the remoteness of his residence from the tillable part of his claim, but Parker remained loyal to his own fireside. Stories of the Foot-hills As the tree-planting farms continue to multiply, the increased rainfall will cause the area of tillable lands, to gradually extend beyond the borders of the arid lands. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century These directions are for raising timber on good tillable land. Soil Culture These were all owned, except perhaps the house lot, by the entire community, and every year the tillable land was parcelled out by the elders of the community to the heads of families for tillage. History of Human Society With added demand for food, less accessible or less easily tillable lands are occupied. Rural Health and Welfare Under cultivation it works up into a good tillable condition. Under the Maples By yielding even one-half of the area of our tillable lands to the needs of forestry, we have all the richest lands left in the remaining half. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century European travelers are surprised at meeting these little floating farms by the side of swamps which only require draining to render them tillable.” Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy The dry climate of this territory necessitated the use of water by irrigation, and the limited amount of tillable soil had forced them to use fertilizers to get the largest possible return per acre. History of Human Society I learned to respect both the sure-footedness of the Yunnan pony and the thrift of the Yunnan peasant who wasted no bit of tillable land on roads. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia In recent years phosphates and artificial fertilizers have been encouraged by the government, and with the educational work now in hand science may give an increase of crops from the circumscribed tillable area. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan The school at Sleepy Eye have available what every other school should have—five acres of tillable ground. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) A recent instance is of a young married man taking 160 acres of tillable land where the landlord has a fairly well-stocked farm. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know Every spot of tillable land among the mountains was carefully improved; the valleys and the less fertile hillsides were made to yield their increase. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan But in general there was little tillable land that was unoccupied. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia On its farther shore begins the Twilight Country, much of it a barren, semifrigid waste, with a little level, tillable land, vast rocky mountain ranges, and a few forests. The Fire People By that canal the swamp might be easily drained, and converted into fine tillable land. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy In the eastern United States 200 acres of tillable land devoted to general farming may bring this amount. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know These slopes, from the banks back to the swamps, usually ten to eighteen hundred yards, drain off the waters and form the tillable lands of the sugar and cotton planters. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 There is a considerable amount of tillable land 280among them, which is principally devoted to the growing of oats and wheat. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent They would, therefore, afford tolerably good tillable land; but we observed the best pieces lay here and there, along the creeks. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 The established government should take up and lease, pending the adjustment of titles, all tillable and unoccupied land. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Perhaps the one feature that the young farmer is most likely to overlook in the selection of a farm is the relative proportion of tillable land. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know Along the lower slopes of the mountains, where the valleys widened, were primitive little adobe towns, in which the Mexicans lived, each owning a few acres of tillable land. The Blood of the Conquerors They also help to dry out the soil in spring, thus making the land tillable earlier. Apple Growing He also dyked and cultivated a large piece of meadow or marsh, from which he gathered more grain than from any land which had been made from woodland into tillable land. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 The hill land is not productive now and the bottom land will have to supply the farm until we get the hills tillable. Watch Yourself Go By If it is a so-called general farm with a minimum of live stock, it would, perhaps, consist of from 150 to 180 acres of tillable land with some additional pasture and woodland. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know It is upon this strip of tillable earth that the river plantations are located. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy On lands rich in humus and in plant food and level so as to be easily tillable, cultivation is without doubt the best system. Apple Growing We rode for two hours over beautiful, level, tillable land along the river, when we obtained a guide who was better acquainted with the road through the woods. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Scattered along the river, and always located on or immediately adjacent to some area of tillable land, are found many small ruins, typical examples of which have been described in detail. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 Zuñi has been built at a point having no special advantages for defense; convenience to large areas of tillable soil has apparently led to the selection of the site. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 Fifty miles below New Orleans the tillable land is nearly a mile in width; below there, it becomes gradually less, until it is lost in the Gulf. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He emphasized how detrimental it might become for a small cluster to own too much tillable land while a large and important clan was suffering for the lack of vegetable food. The Delight Makers He had bought a piece of land, in common with Arie, his brother-in-law, to make tillable land out of the rough woods. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 As the area of tillable land in the pueblo region, especially in its western part, is limited, these requirements have developed a class of temporary structures, occupied only during the farming season. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 A poet describes the country as follows: "A land rich in tillable soil, but hard to cultivate, deep set among perpendicular mountains, rough in aspect, inaccessible to invasion." History Of Ancient Civilization In an experience of some years among northern ruins, many of them located with special reference to outlook over tillable lands, the writer has found no other ruin so well situated as this. Casa Grande Ruin Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318 On the western end there was no tillable land beyond the patches of the Water clan. The Delight Makers The woodland also is very good for tillable land, and it was one of the locations which pleased me most, with its agreeable fountains. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 There are no very large areas of tillable land on the lower Verde and not a large number of small ones, and aside from these areas the country is arid and forbidding in the extreme. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 In this diverse land there is little tillable ground, but almost everywhere bare rock. History Of Ancient Civilization Again, in a few years—a very few—the fifty acres of orchard would be no longer available for crops, and this would still further reduce my tillable land. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm It had flooded the fields, destroying crops and spreading masses of rocky débris over the tillable soil. The Delight Makers The slopes of the Sierra Nevada were traversed by many of the immigrants in search of the precious metals, and by others the tillable land was occupied for agricultural purposes. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State The first desideratum in the minds of the old pueblo builders in choosing the location of their habitations was nearness to some area of tillable land. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 Another puzzling thing is, that in the section afforded by the ditch of the fort, and which is seventeen feet deep, the shingle underlies the tillable soil. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Whatever distinctions in language and customs may have characterized these Northern peoples, they had one ambition in common—the desire to own tillable land. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making To the village Indian such tillable spots were of the greatest value. The Delight Makers So a small, tillable planet was given to them, along with transports, to bring together in this new life all those who wished to go. Oberheim (Voices) The former inhabitants of this region were an agricultural people, and their villages were always located either on or immediately adjacent to some area of tillable soil. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 Such indeed would seem to have been the origin of all the valleys in which there is an expanse of tillable ground, and not mere strips confined to the banks of the draining streams. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries In all the older States there are for sale thousands of acres of tillable land which have been left by the restless shiftings of the American population. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Less than one-fourth of the land is tillable, and not more than a quarter of that is level. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment These damages were seldom repaired, for the indolent planter would not undertake the work of draining and of permanently securing the tillable surface of his land. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 It is difficult otherwise to understand the location of this cluster of rooms, for they command no outlook over tillable land, although the view up and down the river is extensive. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 If its tillable lands were under high cultivation, it would support half the population of the Philippines. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) Much of it is so broken by steep hills and deep ravines as scarcely to be tillable at all. George Washington: Farmer Its area is computed at 55,408 square miles, or 35,459,200 acres, less than two millions of which are called swamp lands, the remaining thirty-three millions being tillable land of unsurpassed fertility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator The area of tillable land is limited and is found only in small patches, which cause the farms to be widely scattered. Arizona Sketches The Ostrogoths seem to have seized one- third of the land in Italy; the Visigoths, two-thirds of that in Gaul and Spain; the Anglo-Saxons, perhaps all the tillable soil of Britain. Early European History Mr. Ripley rather prided himself on the knowledge of the composition and improvement of soils, and when the experiment ceased, the farm had improved in amount of tillable surface and capacity of production. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs It contained more tillable ground than any other, about twelve hundred acres. George Washington: Farmer There were farmhouses at intervals of a mile or so; but the amount of tillable land in the river valley or on the adjacent mountains was very small. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton As was noted in the first part of the preceding chapter, most tillable soils contain the necessary plant food elements to a considerable extent, but only in a very limited degree in available forms. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use It contains as many square miles, with more tillable ground than the whole continent of Europe. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Immigrants poured in, and now every quarter-section that is tillable there has its individual occupant and owner. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young It contained four hundred seventy-six acres of tillable soil and had in 1793 a small overlooker's house, "covering for about 30 negroes, and a tolerable good barn, with stables for the work-horses." George Washington: Farmer On the northern side of the stream every tillable foot of soil is under cultivation. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front All the colonies, except, perhaps, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Delaware, had abundance of vacant and tillable land. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 After leaving the delta region the balance of the journey to Wuchow was through a hill country, the slopes rising steeply from near the river bank, leaving relatively little tilled or readily tillable land. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan There were barns, corn-cribs and other outbuildings as well, and some little tillable land connected with the mill; and all the buildings were vividly painted with red mineral paint, trimmed with white. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Thirty-five acres were fairly good, tillable land, the best we could pick out. The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, Conversely, intensive cultivation is most advanced in China, where a dense population forced the people long ago to bring into use every foot of tillable soil that is left open to them. Three Acres and Liberty Every day he labored in the garden, or in the clearing, or at some task which did not rightly fall to those who rented the major part of Auntie Sue's tillable acreage. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent The people of Delaware have, indeed, very little land that is not tillable. The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware At the farther end they found all ready; tight cottages, tillable fields, all implements furnished, and stock,—even to "FEDERVIEH," or Chanticleer with a modicum of Hens. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 Forests once existed, but tillable land has become so valuable that trees are now comparatively few save in the villages and temples and about the graves of the rich. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening |
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