But unless we are mistaken, the first step towards a solution of the many problems that beset us is taken when we perceive that the jurors have not been asked to state the areal extent of the tilled or the tillable land.
Gamænapaen, now a district in Jersey City, was interpreted by the late Judge Benson, "Tillable land and marsh.
In the eastern United States 200 acres of tillable land devoted to general farming may bring this amount.
If all the nitrogen in coal which is turned into coke in Pennsylvania were recovered, it would furnish enough of this element to supply the needs of every acre of tillable soil in that state.
A recent instance is of a young married man taking 160 acres of tillable land where the landlord has a fairly well-stocked farm.
Perhaps the one feature that the young farmer is most likely to overlook in the selection of a farm is the relative proportion of tillable land.
The woodland also is very good for tillable land, and it was one of the locations which pleased me most, with its agreeable fountains.
We rode for two hours over beautiful, level, tillable land along the river, when we obtained a guide who was better acquainted with the road through the woods.
He had bought a piece of land, in common with Arie, his brother-in-law, to make tillable land out of the rough woods.
They would, therefore, afford tolerably good tillable land; but we observed the best pieces lay here and there, along the creeks.
He also dyked and cultivated a large piece of meadow or marsh, from which he gathered more grain than from any land which had been made from woodland into tillable land.
In recent years phosphates and artificial fertilizers have been encouraged by the government, and with the educational work now in hand science may give an increase of crops from the circumscribedtillable area.
About one-third of the purchase will be found adapted to tobacco, making the cost of tillable land $9 an acre.
Experience had taught him that it is never safe to multiply the number of horses and cattle beyond the number of acres of tillable valley land, while twice that number of sheep can be kept.
These advantages are, extent of level tillable land for hay and grain, altitude which insures low temperature and healthfulness, and third, proximity to the best wild range in the Balsams and Blue Ridge.
By yielding even one-half of the area of our tillable lands to the needs of forestry, we have all the richest lands left in the remaining half.
As the tree-planting farms continue to multiply, the increased rainfall will cause the area of tillable lands, to gradually extend beyond the borders of the arid lands.
Some cotton is grown here, but the cotton plant as we saw it is small compared with our plant, and the tillable area is too limited to admit of the growing of cotton on a large scale.
First, there is but a small area of tillable land stretched along the most wonderful of rivers and guarded on either side by a barren waste that offers greater protection than a wall.
More than one-tenth of the tillable land is owned by sixteen hundred Europeans.
She needs more territory for her expanding population and has about reached the limit in the cultivation of her tillable land.
Upon the maintenance, unimpaired in quantity and quality, of the tillable area of the country its whole future is conditioned.
Thus the tillable land in public ownership, within and without the National Forest, should be disposed of in fee simple to actual settlers, but never to speculators.
In the Cyclades every patch of tillable ground is cultivated by the industrious inhabitants.
Certain conditions of climate, soil, and tillable area in the Southern States of the Union made slave labor remunerative, while opposite conditions in the North combined eventually to exclude it thence.
The district of tillable land on this river, like many others west of the Mississippi, is chiefly confined to its banks.
The county has a sea-coast line of one hundred miles, and contains three millions of acres; two thirds mountain and desert, the remaining million good pasturage and tillable land.
On the tillable land they planted wheat or barley or orchards,--some patches not ten feet square, the largest not over three or four acres.
What did it cost "to subdue" the present tillable lands of this country?
Parallel with the effort to extend the tillable land, everything has been done to increase the productivity of the soil under cultivation.
In recent years the Government undertook a thorough examination of the tillable land in the country and reported as a result that there is yet a possibility of reclaiming about five million acres.
The land between the tillable or cane ridges, was low swamp, almost quagmire, never thoroughly dry, and almost impassable nine months out of the year.
In this diverse land there is little tillable ground, but almost everywhere bare rock.
The area of tillable land is limited and is found only in small patches, which cause the farms to be widely scattered.
Fifty miles below New Orleans the tillable land is nearly a mile in width; below there, it becomes gradually less, until it is lost in the Gulf.
It is upon this strip of tillable earth that the river plantations are located.
The tillable lands are to be surveyed into tracts of twenty acres each, and allotted to such Indians as desire to hold lands in severalty.
As a consequence, the greater portion of tillable ground is held by the chief, who has neither the sense nor energy to direct the steps for a proper development of the soil.
Whatever distinctions in language and customs may have characterized these Northern peoples, they had one ambition in common--the desire to own tillable land.
In all the older States there are for sale thousands of acres of tillable land which have been left by the restless shiftings of the American population.
If they were on tillableland I could make them self-supporting in two years, but this land is arid as a desert.
On the western end there was no tillable land beyond the patches of the Water clan.
He emphasized how detrimental it might become for a small cluster to own too much tillable land while a large and important clan was suffering for the lack of vegetable food.
To the village Indian suchtillable spots were of the greatest value.
In our country to-day we have vast areas of useless land, only waiting to be transformed into tillable acres second in richness to no land in the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tillable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
