A late contract by the Farm has, in a great measure, fixed in a single mercantile house, the supplies of tobacco wanted for this country.
These lands are generally timbered farm lands--of the best quality, in timber, soil and water.
Large cities always afford a market for farm produce, and on this account exert a very beneficial influence on agriculture.
This farm yields yearly from eighty to one hundred tons of hay, besides a large quantity of potatoes and other farm produce.
Another point of interest and curiosity is the Devil's Punch Bowl, situated south from the gateway, as you enter the farm of the late J.
I might emphasize the fact that gambling in stocks and farm products often leads to embezzlement, larceny and suicide, for these are the fruits of speculation when it becomes a disease.
He told of a Russian peasant who had land hunger--who added farm to farm and land to land, but could never get enough.
This is a sample of my life on the farm from four to ten years.
He would have been stranded very soon if he had not had the good sense to marry my beautiful grandmother, who had a thousand-acre farm at Waltham, ten miles out of Boston.
I was desirous to have one of them, and resorted to stratagems learned years ago in the days when I used to snare rabbits and net pigeons on the old farm in New England.
It was ten miles away, but I soon got accustomed to going there alone and selling out the farm produce and vegetables.
I suppose my experiences in New Orleans, on the old farm in Massachusetts, in the grocery store in Boston, and in the shipping house of Enoch Train and Company, matured and hardened me before my time.
The only section I was at all familiar with was the neighborhood of the old Quincy Market, to which I had driven so many wagon-loads of garden and farm "truck" in my boyhood days.
The other document mentioned by my cousin Louisa, was the deed of a farm by my paternal grandfather, making a certain physician trustee of the property.
I read everything I could get hold of, and soon exhausted the small resources of the farm library.
Finally we drove up to a little gate that stood about half a mile from the old farmhouse, and divided the next place from the farm of my grandmother.
George Ripley, who was the leader at Brook Farm and, long afterward, was associated with Charles A.
In Virginia families lived on separate farms and each farm was of necessity a community within itself.
When that has been done and there are several sons, one of them must inherit the farm and the others must seek a living elsewhere.
That other reason was the loneliness of farm life in the early days of colonial Virginia.
The foreman of thefarm brought two men before the court and asked for important instructions.
He called the superintendents and overseers of the farm together, and asked their plans for the crop on the five hundred acres of fertile lands under cultivation.
If so, who determines the kind of crop each farm shall raise?
On the farm and orchard we need ploughmen and harvesters for grain and hay, gardeners, stablemen, and ditchers.
And it was on a farm near this road that Victoire was installed, Victoire, that is to say, Lupin, for one did not move without the other, the master without the blindly devoted servant.
A little to the left, a series of handsome avenues of trees led to the farm of the Neuvillette, the buildings of which were now in view.
The farmer and his son, awakened by the shot, now came from the farm buildings, which were at some distance on the right, but within the circuit of the walls.
That night, Ganimard openly sent the squad of gendarmes to the farm and posted himself and Folenfant outside the walls, near the little door.
The exciseman's wife was hurrying from the farm as fast as she could.
A ladder was removed from the farm buildings and placed against the second story of the chateau.
Amidst the cheers of the troops, we passed through the camps, and settled down upon a fine prairie-farm a mile to the southwest of Tipton.
By way of a slight punishment, the General has annoyed the old man by naming his farm "Camp Owen Lovejoy," a name which the Union neighbors will not fail to make perpetual.
The poor detor iz then obliged to sell hiz farm or hiz cattle, or both, at private sale or at auction, for any price they will fetch, which iz commonly but a small part of the valu.
Lessees for a yeer hav few motivs to keep a farm in good repair; and slaves are the worst cultivaters on erth, az they hav the leest interest in the fruits of their labor.
Theze men therefore keep their money, till their distressed nabor iz forced by det to sell hiz farm; then iz the time to lay out their money; they get the farm at their own price, which iz generally less than half its valu.
So she left the Hall Farm and went back to the town, and Adam waited,--and then went after her to get his answer.
He was timidly revolving something he wanted to say, and it was only when they were close to the yard-gates of the Hall Farm he had the courage to speak.
The red firelight on the hearth at the Hall Farmshone on joyful faces that evening when Adam took the opportunity of telling Mr. and Mrs. Poyser that he saw his way to maintaining a wife now, and that Hetty had consented to have him.
At the same time he offered to let me his parsonage, which was then become vacant; he said it was a farm which required but little stock, and that little should not be wanting.
He did no more than pluck a rose for her, and walk back to the farm with her arm in his.
The first of these was in enlarging my business by adding a farm of one hundred a year to the parsonage, in renting which I had also as bad a bargain as the doctor had before given me a good one.
By-and-by, a good farm fell vacant, and my son put in a proposal for it.
Miss Matty made me her confidante in many matters, and one evening she sent Martha to go for eggs at a farm at the other end of the town and told me the story of her brother.
Nearly all the labourers on Flintcomb-Ash farm intended flight, and early in the morning there was a general exodus in the direction of the town, which lay at a distance of from ten to a dozen miles over hilly country.
Thus she went forward from farm to farm in the direction of the place whence Marian had written to her, which she determined to make use of as a last shift only, its rumoured stringencies being the reverse of tempting.
She was now on her way to an upland farm in the centre of the county, to which she had been recommended by a wandering letter which had reached her from Marian.
A few minutes later the chimneys of The Slopes appeared in view, and in a snug nook to the right the poultry-farm and cottage of Tess' destination.
To leave the farmon a week-day was not in her power; Sunday was the only possible opportunity.
Her first experience of the journey afforded her more enjoyment than she had expected, the hilariousness of the others being quite contagious after her monotonous attention to the poultry-farm all the week.
XLIII There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place.
He travelled with his engine from farm to farm, from county to county, for as yet the steam threshing-machine was itinerant in this part of Wessex.
These annual migrations from farm to farm were on the increase here.
When I saw you ill-used on the farm that day I was nearly mad to think that I had no legal right to protect you--that I could not have it; whilst he who has it seems to neglect you utterly!
About ten o'clock I stopped at the door of a farm and made signs that I wanted food and drink.
For in some of the fights the peasantry, including women of all ages, took part, and showed that farm instruments are as deadly as any kind of "arme blanche.
When we got back to the farm we found that the battery had been advanced, and we had some difficulty in finding it.
The inhabitants of these were all gone, fled or murdered; and the Germans had pierced the walls of their homes with loop-holes, and piled the furniture, carts and farm implements together to form barricades.
We fell back on two small hamlets with a farm between them, and here we entrenched ourselves, putting the buildings into a state of defence.
So she married them on the spot, and set them up for themselves, with horses, and cattle, and household stuff, in the farm up under the hill.
So when she had gone a good bit further, she came to the farm where the old witch lived.
And so Little Peter was rid of them all, and the farm and fields came to him as heir, and horses and cattle too; and, besides, he had money in his pocket to buy milch kine to tether in his byre.
So when Peter the Pedlar came to hear the whole story, and came to see the letter, he got so angry he was ready to burst with rage, and off he ran up to the farm to the young couple.
The man saw how the land lay in a trice, so he saddled his horse and rode off from the farm at full gallop.
The farm was their own land, and they had a hundred dollars lying at the bottom of their chest, and two cows tethered up in a stall in their farm-yard.
Where should she be but up at the farmunder the hill, as you wrote in the letter.
Up at the farm there was a great feast got ready for the Princesses, and much was made of them, but they wouldn't stop there.
Here he procured employment on the farm of a widow; and being a smart, active fellow, and proving highly serviceable in his department, he rapidly gained favor in the eyes of his employer.
It is not thought wise to buy a farm which has not enough bush or growing timber for both rails and firewood.
All agricultural operations connected with the royal farm at Berhut, are annually performed by the surrounding population en masse.
The hot dusty hamlets and scattered farm houses, which crown many of the peaks, are surrounded by extensive cultivation.
While breakfast was in progress, the farmer from the hill farm came in to tell them that they must be prepared to move out, as he meant to sell the house.
Lasse Frederik, who had been up to the hill farm for milk.
They walked round the hill and came to the farm from the other side.
He had a map of the Hill Farm land beside him, and was making plans for a systematic laying out of the ground for building.
He was busy working out projects for the building on the Hill Farm land, and gave himself no rest.
He had lived up there and had seen one farm after another grow larger and make their owners into millionaires, and was always expecting that his turn would come.
I got a carriage from the farmto drive in for the doctor.
And Pelle told them stories of his childhood--about the bull and Father Lasse, the farmer of Stone Farm and Uncle Kalle with his thirteen children and his happy disposition.
They went for a little walk behind the farm to see the evening sky.
I expect the key's to be got at the farm up there.
They went up past the farm and on toward the evening sun, walked hand- in-hand in the dewy grass, gazing silently in front of them.
I understand that a dairy is kept on the farm at Occoquan, and yet it is perfectly certain that no whole milk is served or ever has been served to one of the so-called "picketers" in that jail.
She lived on a farm five miles from here, and she was my sweetheart.
He got the name of the sign painter, accepted a glass of buttermilk at the farm house, and then rode slowly home by another route, so that he might not have to face the signs again.
But now I am helpless, and my husband devotes all his time to me, although I beg him to work the farm and try to earn some money.
By ten o'clock the farm wagons began to drive up, loaded with women and children, for all were invited except the grown men.
That comes from living on your oldfarm at Millville," she retorted.
On the farmnearest to Elmhurst at the north, which belonged to a man named Webb, was a barn, facing the road, that displayed on its side a tobacco sign.
Uncle John had carried his nieces to a farm at Millville, in the Adirondack region, for the summer, so that Kenneth heard but seldom from his friends.
Then Eldred of the idle farm Leaned on his ancient sword, As fell his heavy words and few; And his eyes were of such alien blue As gleams where the Northman saileth new Into an unknown fiord.
With one whole farm marching afoot The trampled road resounds, Farm-hands and farm-beasts blundering by And jars of mead and stores of rye, Where Eldred strode above his high And thunder-throated hounds.
The long farm lay on the large hill-side, Flat like a painted plan, And by the side the low white house, Where dwelt the southland man.
Generals Hooker and Mansfield had crossed the creek with their respective corps during the night, bivouacking on the farm of J.
The camp was made on the farm of an eccentric character, named Robert L.
The house of Talbut, a large farm mansion, sat back from the highway an eighth of a mile, while between the house and the road was an extensive corn-field.
