 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1910 - 468 pages
...was supported by this fact and especially by constant reflections upon the following points, viz. : "First, that the public lands of most value were being...waste of soil, by encouraging short occupancy and a speedy search for new homes, entailing upon the first and older settlements a rapid deterioration... | |
 | United States. Office of Experiment Stations - 1924 - 1028 pages
...fact and especially by constant reflection on five considerations which he enumerates as follows: " First, that the public lands of most value were being...facility of purchase and transfer, tended to a system of bad-farming or strip and waste of the soil, by encouraging short occupancy and a speedy search for... | |
 | William Belmont Parker - 1924 - 408 pages
...was supported by this fact and especially by constant reflections upon the following points, viz.: First, that the public lands of most value were being...facility of purchase and transfer, tended to a system of bad-farming or strip and waste of the soil, by encouraging short occupancy and a speedy search for... | |
 | Alfred Charles True - 1929 - 464 pages
...was supported by this fact and especially by constant reflections upon the following points, viz : First, that the public lands of most value were being...facility of purchase and transfer, tended to a system of bad-farming or strip and waste of the soil, by encouraging short occupancy and a speedy search for... | |
 | Alfred Charles True - 1929 - 458 pages
...it was supported by this fact and especially by constant reflections upon the following points, viz: First, that the public lands of most value were being...lands, and the facility of purchase and transfer, (ended to a system of bad-farming or strip and waste of the soil, by encouraging short occupaney and... | |
 | Wendell Berry - 1978 - 248 pages
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First, that the public lands of most value were being rapidly dissipated by donations to merely local and private objects, where one State alone might be benefited at the expense of the property of the Union. Second, that the very cheapness of our public... 