A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... acre of one of the crops cultivated in New York , as refuting my evidence of the desolating effects of slavery in the Sea- board States . Waste of soil and injudicious application of labor is common in the agricul- ture of the North ...
... its present youth is little known . In 1855 , the crop about Cincinnati is estimated at $ 150,000 . There are about 1,500 acres of vines planted ; 1,000 6 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS . mud-slope to the bank, supported by a ...
... acre . In 1853 , the average crop was 650 gallons ; the extreme yield 900 gallons to the acre . The acres planted in 1845 , 350 ; in 1852 , 1,200 . Missouri and Illinois have also ( 1855 ) 1,100 acres planted . Mr. Longworth is said to ...
... and glimpses . The price of land for such places , within thirty or forty minutes ' drive of town , was , I was told , $ 1,000 per acre ; and , of all eli- gible land , within ten miles around , $ 200 8 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS .
... acre ; near Lexington , $ 200 . Its fertility was described as inex- haustible . One field was pointed out that had been cultivated in corn for sixty years , without interruption , and without manure . Its produce was still forty ...