hillers

In anticipation of the LA City Council meeting held last Friday at Van Nuys City Hall, Los Angeles City Nerd put together a complete travelogue for over the hillers who might find a trip to the San Fernando Valley somewhat daunting.

Archive 2006-04-01 2006

For the initial cultivation, while the crop is still small, reversed disc-hillers can be used to cut soil away from the plants, and sweeps and knives can be used to cut weeds off just below the soil surface.

1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992

A larger class of Southerners who joined with measured alacrity the armies of defense were the small farmers of the hills and poorer eastern counties; but the "sand-hillers" and

Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd

Next came the thriftless and impecunious whites, variously known as the "pine-landers" and "crackers" in Georgia, the "sand-hillers" of

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

Here and there were the shanties of sand-hillers, negro huts, and scores of long, lank, scrimped-up, razor-backed pigs of the

Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885

Mark the measure on the hoe handle, and require the hillers to apply it frequently as a guide.

A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests In North Carolina. Being an Account of the Culture, Handling and Manufacture of the Staple; Together with Some Information Respecting the Principal Farmers, Manufacturing Establishments and Warehouses; with Statistics Exhibiting the Growth of Tobacco in the Western Counties, and Also in the Other Tobacco Producing Regions of the State, as Shown By Comparison of the Crop of 1880 with Those of Preceding Years John Donald 1881

Those who remain at home are certainly, as I have said, improving as a whole; yet the Sand-hillers of South Carolina, the Crackers of Georgia and Florida, the wretched masses along the lowlands of the Atlantic coast, and the mountaineers in some portions of Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, and

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

Being usually addicted to this filthy and disgusting vice, or whatever else one may choose to call it, it is not at all strange that the female Sand-hillers should so soon lose all trace of beauty, and at thirty are about the color of yellow parchment, if not thin and pale from constant attacks of fever.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

The people of the Cape have manners and customs, and a character peculiar to themselves, as have the "Crackers" and "Sand-hillers," of Georgia.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

Why have not the poor Sand-hillers turned their attention to something besides raising corn and bacon, eating clay, drinking whisky, and disputing on the meaning of the Greek for which alone they are distinguished, seeing the small profit of these occupations?

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856