What did it cost "to subdue" the present tillable lands of this country?
Westward the same conditions are manifest, and the limited area of tillable land shows a yearly increasing number of fruit trees.
If they were on tillable land I could make them self-supporting in two years, but this land is arid as a desert.
The people of Delaware have, indeed, very little land that is not tillable.
The houses are tidied and neat; the soil, every tillable inch of it, is in a state of intensive and painstaking cultivation.