. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The old while church in Lenox. The Merrimack above Pawtucket FallsBay State Industries, Places, and Famous People MARKET gardening is done on a large scale nearthe cities. Many of the market gardeners havebig glass houses that are heated in winter so that cropsare growing in them all through the year. In theadjacent fields several crops are raised each season. 143 144 New England As soon as one crop is marketed the ground isploughed, manured, and harrowed, and another cropstarted. Planting, cultivating, weeding, watering, and gathering these
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The old while church in Lenox. The Merrimack above Pawtucket FallsBay State Industries, Places, and Famous People MARKET gardening is done on a large scale nearthe cities. Many of the market gardeners havebig glass houses that are heated in winter so that cropsare growing in them all through the year. In theadjacent fields several crops are raised each season. 143 144 New England As soon as one crop is marketed the ground isploughed, manured, and harrowed, and another cropstarted. Planting, cultivating, weeding, watering, and gathering these mar-ket garden crops giveemployment to manyhands. Onions, tobacco,hay, and fruit areimportant crops insome sections, andmilk has to be pro-duced in large quan-tities to supply thecity dwellers. Bos-ton requires so muchmilk that a greatdeal is brought to itby train from longdistances. The big city of thecentral part of the state is Worcester. It was muchharassed by the Indians in its early days, and for along time it was so pestered by wolves that the peoplewere deterred from ra
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