Farmers and peasants were unable to sell their produce except at ruinous prices, and were wholly unable to pay their taxes.
All our securities have fallen, railway and customs returns have decreased, farmers cannot pay, and taxes are hard to collect.
And surely the great body of our people, the farmers and artificers, will not find it hard to keep an agreement by which they both save and gain.
Had the League waited until two or three hundred thousand tenant-farmers were ready to obey it, it would have involved the eviction of a million of people.
As for direct taxation--well, even the farmers know what the English income-tax is.
The farmers were too hard pressed by taxes imposed by the province, and by the weight of local assessments, to listen to fanciful appeals.
The great distance of many of the farmers from the town prevented their exercising what they deemed their rightful influence in municipal affairs.
The papers which remain relating to the subject show that the farmers understood it in all its bearings, and maintained their cause with clearness of perception and forcibleness of argument and expression.
It may be that their arrival was strongly resisted by the Early Farmers who had claimed title to these lands for the past thousand years.
Beside their large and thriving religious center, we can reconstruct many aspects of their daily lives in which the Master Farmers were different from their predecessors.
We have suggested that their culture was a mixture of very old elements in the region, such as complicated stamping, with newer ideas coming in with the Master Farmers or even later, such as temple mounds and incised decoration.
Good land thus becoming relatively scarce, tribes were no longer able to find suitable areas for new settlements, as our Master Farmers had done, by the simple act of moving to another region.
The Great Temple Mound was the principal religious structure of the Master Farmers at Ocmulgee.
The life of these late prehistoric farmers was otherwise much the same as that of their predecessors who had lived on the bluffs up the river.
Within 200 years the busy village was deserted, only to be visited by an occasional traveling band descended from the Early Farmers who had lived on in nearby sections.
In any case, the mounds for succeeding structures were gradually raised above it; and by this act the rows were buried and thus preserved as conclusive proof of the advanced state of culture which the Master Farmers had achieved.
Of course the Master Farmers made other types of pottery, too.
Kate, indeed, grew to prefer certain of the rough and simple farmers who came there to the more polished visitors.
And the other girls says it's the same with them, but I told them it was because you was just from the country, and that farmers all walk the same way.
Don't none of the girls there have gentlemen-friends, or is farmers so different that they never stand gentlemen-friends to them?
I saw there was no use trying to point out to Henrietta the difference between farmers and those born in the country, both of which were terms of contempt in her vocabulary.
And the farmers after paying their rents and exchanging for a few articles of need with their produce have to live from hand to mouth.
In this International Development Scheme, I suggest first that scientific bureaus be established in every silk district to give directions to the farmers and to provide healthy silk-worm eggs.
The farmers must be protected and encouraged by liberal land laws by which they can duly reap the fruits of their own labor.
Middle West, attempting to organize harvest hands into a semblance of a union and compel the farmers to grant their demands.
This organization, says Tridon, was "made up mostly of laborers and farmers who rejected all parliamentary action and advocated education and propaganda as the best means to bring about a social revolution.
During the winter months, this district is infested by insects and vermin, and is subject to dreadful storms and inundations, which oblige the farmers to send their cattle to the Andes.
The chief objects of the farmers in this district, is the breeding of mules, for the purposes of the trade before mentioned.
About half-past two the butcher and the two farmers arrived, in company with a small, fat man who gravely announced himself as one of the deputy sheriffs of the county.
The deputy sheriff and the two farmers carried shotguns, and the butcher boastfully exhibited a pistol of the old "hoss" variety, and nearly two feet long.
If they rob the farmers around here, they wouldn't hesitate to rob us.
Beyond a doubt these fellows are thieves, and the farmers around here would be glad to place them under arrest.
The butcher and the farmers were glad to see the rascals rounded up, and the deputy sheriff was proud of the part he had played in the affair.
While the cadets were awaiting the arrival of Landerson the butcher and Peters and Robinson, two farmers who had lately lost chickens by stealing, the young major gave some of them directions where to go and establish a new camp.
At the butcher shop the two cadets had quite a talk, the upshot of which was that the butcher said he would visit the camp on the following afternoon, bringing two farmers who had lost chickens with him.
I do not believe the farmerswill favor this legislation if it affects them, and I think that the number of accidents occurring on farms is not sufficient to make their inclusion necessary for the success of the bill.
Missouri is largely an agricultural State, and the Legislature is in the control very largely of the farmers and the representatives of the smaller cities in the agricultural districts.
I say to you that I believe that the farmers in this country would welcome such a proposition if they understood it.
I can readily see how the farmers and employers of domestic servants would be inclined to oppose a measure as strong and radical as to include all such employes.
After enclosure, he could get no milk, for the farmers would not sell it; no meat, for his wages could not buy it; and he no longer had a pig to provide the fat bacon commended by Cobbett.
You could broaden your basis if you had money enough to try the experiment of giving ten poor but honest men in Beaconsfield and ten more in London capital enough to start for themselves as independent farmers and shopkeepers.
For the large landowners would seldom sell and the land bought by the new men was mostly the land of small farmers and yeomen.
He thought of them as human beings who might well have been farmers of Sussex or of Kent, something of an older civilization, resisting money power and imperialism and perishing thereby.
All the farmers crowded round him, each offering a higher price than the last.
Antoine was sitting on a plum tree belonging to a neighbour, eating the ripe fruit, when he saw the three young farmers coming towards him.
The farmers were so astonished at her restoration, that it was some time before they could speak.
At the sight of him the three farmersstood still with astonishment.
The country hereabouts hath been scoured for it until the farmers tell us that there is no more.
They didn't find it so easy to get pickings up here as they did down at my house," chuckled Henry Egan as the hidden farmers came forth after the skirmish, without the loss of a man.
Twould take all that you have to purchase a meal that would be filling, and I doubt whether the farmers hereabouts would take them.
I thought that catching at words had been confined to the pothouse farmers and village witty bodies.
Now think, yefarmers all, I pray, Of Goody Blake and Harry Gill!
Both farmers and townsmen were thoroughly independent and self-respecting, and were gradually getting more and more political power.
The farmers were thrifty, set in their ways, and obstinate; the townsmen thrifty also, but restless and turbulent.
The bulk of the people were small farmers in the country, tradesmen and mechanics in the towns.
You must know that the farmers along the road are obliged to turn out with their horses and oxen, and plough down the drifts, whenever the road is blocked up by a storm.
So every summerfarmers invite boys and girls from the city to be their guests for four weeks of their vacation.
Farmers in this northland often raise foxes for sale.
Farmers who live on the mountains send hay, baskets of berries, buckets of milk or butter down to the valleys on strong wires which have been stretched down the mountain slopes.
Long ago the farmersin Norway found that they must use the grass on the high mountains for summer feed.
The farmers in Norway fasten their grain on short poles to hold it up off the wet ground.
The farmer told Christian the "co-operative" means that the farmers are working together for the good of all.
So instead of each farmer making cheese and butter on his own farm and selling it at whatever price he wishes, a group of farmers take their milk and cream to factories where cheese and butter are made for them.
Many business men and their wives ski; farmers and their wives ski; the King and Queen ski.
Many farmers had to take pasture lands which were far from their farms.
Farmers in many countries would call such rocky hillsides waste land, but in Norway no blade of grass can be wasted if the cattle are to be well fed during the winter.
And most farmers in Norway keep goats as well as cows, horses, and pigs.
But the new owners of the farms are also owners of the same saeters that the old farmers staked off for the farm.
The farmers used scythes and hand sickles to cut around the many rocks.
Many farmers will then float logs in the same stream; therefore at the river bank each of Eric's logs must be marked so that his father can claim them at the end of the waterway.
The cases were decided in the courts, upon the opinions of viewers who were appointed by the court, and which body of viewers was composed of disinterested farmers of the same county.
Practically all the farmersalong the line of the railroad claimed damages up to a hundred dollars per acre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farmers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
