Chester County and its people .. . Wayne.\ General Weedon/ Baron De Kalb.(ieneral Lee. and Owner or Lessee 171Issac Potts, Brown, Owner. Jolm Reavers \\illiaui Davis. Lessee of .Maurice \illiani Godfrey, Tenant, Thomas Waters,Owner. .Idbn Llavard. Samuel llavard. .Tones, .Mann. (Colored).Mordecai Jloore, Moore. Waters, Walker, Walker, Owner.•Joseph Walker, Owner. .Vbijah Stephens, David )avid llavard. Owner, Forge Cen.
Chester County and its people .. . Wayne.\ General Weedon/ Baron De Kalb.(ieneral Lee. and Owner or Lessee 171Issac Potts, Brown, Owner. Jolm Reavers \\illiaui Davis. Lessee of .Maurice \illiani Godfrey, Tenant, Thomas Waters,Owner. .Idbn Llavard. Samuel llavard. .Tones, .Mann. (Colored).Mordecai Jloore, Moore. Waters, Walker, Walker, Owner.•Joseph Walker, Owner. .Vbijah Stephens, David )avid llavard. Owner, Forge Cen. Francis S. Evans. Ileston Todd. * Davi<l llavards Estate. Edward Wilsons Latch. .T. W. . .Aloores ^v H. Walker. Abram Fisher. William J. Cassatt. f *Hut of Baron Steuben was located on this farm. -i-Thomas Bradford, deputy commissary officer to the prisoners, was quarteredhere. General Lee remaining only a short CHAPTER XX. AGRICULTURE. &C. (HA]TE1{ XX. AGRICULTURE AND DAIRYING—EARLY METHODS THE SliIL—PRODUCTS REAPERS AND MOWERS—THRESHING MACHINES—AGRICULTURAL EXHIBI-TIONS—HORTICULTURE SHEEP—PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY DAIRY INTERESTS—MILLING—CARNATIONS—GENERAL CROPS NURSERIES AND GREEN HOUSES BOTANICAL GARDENS STATISTICS. IX couuectioii with sucli remarks as may be made on tliesubject of agriculture in this work, it is proper at the outset tonote the fact that on this, as (m most other subjects, the menselected to represent the people in the Legislatures of the severalStates are better informed than are the people themselves, andhave higher and more comprehensive views of the necessities andpossibilities of the calling. This fact has a deep and wide mean-ing to those capable of appre<-iating it, it being a solemn and per-sistent tribute of the people to intelligence, and a sure guaranteeof the perjietuity of the Republic so long as the people hav
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