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Page 122
... improved and drained , competition among potential renters for these good farms drove rents up . In the early 1870s renters paid one - third of their crop and furnished labor , seed , work animals , and equipment . By the mid - 1880s ...
... improved and drained , competition among potential renters for these good farms drove rents up . In the early 1870s renters paid one - third of their crop and furnished labor , seed , work animals , and equipment . By the mid - 1880s ...
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... improved in 1890 -with very little unimproved land existing in the north and central divisions . Land values had also risen , for by 1900 over 90 percent of the land area of the section with the richest soil ( east ) central Illinois ...
... improved in 1890 -with very little unimproved land existing in the north and central divisions . Land values had also risen , for by 1900 over 90 percent of the land area of the section with the richest soil ( east ) central Illinois ...
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... improved at this time . It is possible to assert that " by 1893 most of the important machines had been pretty well developed , but improvements are constantly being made . Those which were of chief importance in the Illinois corn belt ...
... improved at this time . It is possible to assert that " by 1893 most of the important machines had been pretty well developed , but improvements are constantly being made . Those which were of chief importance in the Illinois corn belt ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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