These clumps make part of a plantation of 30 or forty acres, perhaps 50 acres.
In addition to his business in Walla Walla he is the owner of eighty acres of valuable fruit land in California which is now in bearing and he has recently sold six hundred and forty acres of land in Walla Walla county.
His place comprises six hundred and forty acres of as fine wheat land as can be found in the northwest, and he annually harvests large crops of grain of the first quality.
This he subsequently traded for six hundred and forty acres in the foothills, about nine miles south of Walla Walla, known as the Bay Shore ranch.
It was just that way--a gift of forty acres of land and a colt from her former master.
My uncle George came back with Mr. Parks and was given a good mountain farm of forty acres, which he put in cultivation and one of my uncle's descendants still lives on the place.
Forty Acres and a Mule" "My mother received forty acres of land when freedom came.
HW: Forty Acres and a Mule] "I was sold the third year of the war for fifteen years old.
There is no doubt that the "forty acres and a mule" idea was partly caused by the distribution among the negroes of the lands on the south Atlantic coast by General Sherman and others, and by the provisions of the early Bureau acts.
They camped in the shadow of the fort for three or four weeks, after which Mr. Loundagin rented a small place of forty acres from an old man of the name of Massey.
After the death of her husband she owned and personally managed the operation of two thousand and forty acres of wheat land and two hundred and forty acres on the mountain, a part of which was wheat land and a part pasture.
Blakestad Skavlem had become the owner offorty acres in Beloit Township.
Nils Bolstad entered on forty acres of section two in the Town of Christiana, and Magne Bystoelen's forty acreslay directly east of Bolstad's in the same section.
When he came to Clinton Township he first entered claim to forty acres of land, which was later increased to a hundred sixty.
Nels Hersdal secured six hundred and forty acres in exchange for one hundred acres he owned in Orleans County, New York.
Many a farmer has to-day ten to forty acresof indifferent cord-wood where he might, at a very slight cost, have had instead an equal quantity of choice timber, worth ten times as much.
No, my master did not give me forty acres of land and a mule.
A man going on the land should have not less than twelve hundred dollars after making his first payment on forty acres.
Thirty families made contracts to buy farms of forty acres, with the stipulation that they would pay the price gradually out of their income from the farms.
Later, twenty families made a contract with a land company for the purchase of farms varying in size from twenty to forty acres, at a price of $120 per acre.
Forty acres of land to every farmer; and to every housekeeper, residing in a town or city, a house and lot not to exceed $3000 in value.
Forty acres of land, not in town or city, or a town or city lot not exceeding in amount one-fourth of an acre.
Forty acres of land, when not in any town or city, and provided such does not exceed in value $400.
Even threats and the promise of forty acres of land have no influence.
En will the Lawd's messengers come wid me right now to de bend er de creek whar I done pick out my forty acres?
Some who had hesitated about the forty acres of land, remembering that it must be worked, couldn't resist the idea of owning a mule.
However, on the better drained parts of the field where the corn was given further cultivation the yield was good and about 1,000 bushels of sound corn were gathered from the forty acres.
The labor problem of a farm of three hundred and twenty acres is of course very different from that on forty acres, and we are not yet fully decided regarding our crop rotation and the disposition of the crops produced (or hoped for).
Now, I understand that that particular property--forty acres in all--belongs to that little farmer at the Sicaster end of the village.
And if there was coal beneath Ben Scholes's forty acres, why not try for the fortune which its successful getting would represent?
My whole landed possessions consisted of a farm of forty acres, which I had, after the fashion of some of my richer neighbours in other states, suffered to fall into the most wretched condition imaginable.
Forty acres of land were purchased, and a part of the lumber for a good, comfortable building was put upon the grounds.
If a clear title to forty acresand a mule represents the extreme upper limit of a black man's ambition, why call him a man?
Forty acres of good farm-land about a mile from town have been secured.
He replied that he would be glad to give us forty acresif we would use it for school purposes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forty acres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
