It had now been a penal settlement for four years; besides erecting the buildings, the aboriginal labourers had cleared thirty-four acres of land, chiefly in detached valleys.
But three or four acres, to yield in like degree, require an amount of manure which it is quite out of a labourer's power to purchase; and he cannot keep live stock to produce it.
Bitter experience demonstrated how false the calculations had been which seemed to show--on the basis of the produce of a small allotment--that a man might live on three or four acres.
The occupier of a plot of four acres in such a position--many miles from the nearest town--would experience a hard lot indeed if he attempted to live by it.
And they say that the aforesaid fifty-four acres and a half of land are worth by the year in all issues over and above the aforesaid services nineteen shillings and six-pence.
I said that there were above four acres, and that I should not wonder if there were four acres and a half.
We asked him how much ground there was in that piece of cabbages, and he told us, four acres and a half!
Four acres of ground in Arthur's Vale were planted with Indian corn on the 24th; and, as the rats had dug up most of that which had been planted in the gardens, I replaced it, putting five grains of corn into each pit.
Four acres of the wheat were greatly damaged by some very heavy rain, which fell from the 14th to the 18th, and caused it to shoot out; but this was put into a stack by itself for present consumption.
The stream of water gives motion to a mill, belonging to Mr. Price, and feeds the mill pond, which is a fine sheet of water covering twenty-four acres.
The superficial contents of the parish is two thousand, eight hundred, and sixty-four acres.
He purchased a farm of twenty-four acres in College Place and has since lived there, giving his attention to the raising of fruit and also to the conduct of a dairy business.
About 1911 he purchased five hundred and eighty-four acres of wheat land on Mill creek, for which he paid one hundred dollars per acre.
The brothers are operating in partnership four hundred and thirty-four acres of excellent land, Morton C.
Here he owns three hundred and eighty-four acres of rich and productive land, upon which he has placed many modern improvements, including an attractive home and substantial buildings that furnish ample shelter for grain and stock.
England, however, was still fairly big for its three or four millions of souls, and an Act of Queen Elizabeth provided that every new cottage built should stand in four acres of its own.
It contains three hundred and sixty-four acres, and is one of the handsomest farms in Lancaster County.
To the astonishment of the parties in charge of the enterprise, he made a free gift of the land--four acres in extent--to the trustees.
His success was rapid, and upon attaining his majority he was enabled to purchase and stock a farm of eighty-four acres in Washington County, Pennsylvania, which he gave to his mother for a home as long as she should live.
It is reckoned to contain thirteen hides and a half, each hide comprising six virgates, and each virgate twenty-four acres.
There is one free tenant of eighty-eight acres holding de antiquitate and the Scholars of Merton hold forty-four acres freely.
Not one man in five has a cow, but generally from one to four acres, upon which they have potatoes, and five or six sheep, which they milk, and spin their wool.
Four acres of potatoes were planted on a two-year-old clover-sod, plowed in the spring.
Where land is cheap, it may sometimes pay to compel a cow to travel over three or four acres to get her food, but we cannot afford to raise our hay in half ton crops; it costs too much to harvest them.
A double mould-board plow will ridge up four acres a day, and the guano being previously sown on the surface, will be turned up with the mellow surface-soil into the ridge, where the seed is to be sown.
He told me he was off to South America, where, for a mere nothing, he would get a farm of seventy-four acres of virgin soil; but I do not remember the name of the place where he was going.
Government gives the agriculturist his passage free; keeps him when he first lands; and gives him a ranch of seventy-four acres of land.
From many of the criticisms which have appeared respecting "Our Farm of Four Acres," I have received not only complimentary remarks, but likewise some useful hints on the subjects of which I have written.
A reservoir or pond covering three or four acres may be made adjacent to the well at a small cost of labor, by excavating slightly and using the earth to form an embankment on the lower side.
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