Unimproved Sentence Examples
Forty more lay behind that — all wild and unimproved.
The development of marine commerce has been retarded by unimproved harbours, but Fernandina and Pensacola harbours have always been good.
In 1908 an Income Tax and a Land Tax Act was passed; the land tax being a halfpenny in the £ " on the aggregate unimproved value " - it brought in £30,000 in 1908-1909.
The smaller size of the flocks and the breeding of sheep for meat rather than for wool, the cultivation of English grasses and of extensive crops of turnips and other roots on which to fatten sheep and lambs, all tend to change sheep-farming from the mere grazing of huge mobs on wide, unimproved runs held by pastoral licences.
The reign closed with the French position unimproved in Flanders, except for the transfer to Philip by Count Robert of Lille, Douai and Bethune, and their dependencies.
The large increase in unimproved acreage in farms was principally due to the increased importance in sheep-raising.
The acreage of improved lands in 1900 was returned by the federal census as 2,273,968, three times as much being unimproved; the land improved constituted 3.4% of the state's area.
The direct taxation is represented by a tax of one penny in the pound on the unimproved value of land, sixpence in the pound on the annual income derived in the state from all sources, except the use and occupation of land and improvements thereon.
The fact that these States contain, according to the last census, over 100,000,000 acres of unimproved land, alread y enclosed in farms, suggests at once the great possibilities in wheat.
The availableness of the unimproved land in these states is chiefly a question of population and physical features.
AdvertisementIn states like New York and Pennsylvania, which are much broken up by hills and mountains, and have already a large population, it is probable that the land available for wheat cultivation is now nearly all taken up, although they still have 30% of unimproved land in farms. In the great states of Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas there is still 40 to 50% of unimproved land in farms. There are few mountains and hills in these States, and there is still room in them for a large population.
Twelve states, in this vast cereal-growing region - Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota - still have from 20 to 40% of unimproved land in farms. The total area of these states is nearly four times that of France.
Howie's mood and disposition were unimproved though Julie was convinced he would come around now that we were together.
These include areas of dry neutral unimproved grassland which are relatively species rich.
At Little Lathe near Coniston there is a small meadow typical of unimproved northern hay meadows.
AdvertisementAt Sennybridge we pass an unusual feature for a largely unimproved rural road.
One particular area already has some nature conservation interest as relatively unimproved grassland, with a network of small hedgerows and some wetland habitat.
Sadly only around 4250 hectares of agriculturally unimproved grasslands remain in Suffolk -- 1.1% of the total area.
What will happen to those of us who remain unimproved?
They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.
AdvertisementAnd, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man?
Ay, the deep Walden Pond and cool Brister's Spring--privilege to drink long and healthy draughts at these, all unimproved by these men but to dilute their glass.
Unimproved grasslands on neutral or acidic soils are likely to contain at least 12 species of vascular plant per meter square.
A few unimproved river meadows can also be found.
Today our national fauna has been decimated by modern farming practices and the huge loss of unimproved habitats to the plow.
AdvertisementOn unimproved lands the tenant pays only the taxes the first two years.
Take a two-mile hike on an unimproved trail from the parking lot and spend the day hunting for fossils along the beach.