. The story of agriculture in the United States. people as a whole, that these various acquisi-tions seemed not only natural but inevitable. In fact,nothing but the Ocean could stay the advancing tide ofthe men who held the plow. CHAPTER XVI THE COTTON KINGDOM 0\ ^. who wishes to get a correct idea of. farm Hfe andwork in the South before the Civil War should be re-minded of several very important facts, (i) Much ofthe land in the South was un-cultivated; thetraveller mightride for milesthrough forestsand wild wasvery sparse inmost , thefields exhaustedby cotton c
. The story of agriculture in the United States. people as a whole, that these various acquisi-tions seemed not only natural but inevitable. In fact,nothing but the Ocean could stay the advancing tide ofthe men who held the plow. CHAPTER XVI THE COTTON KINGDOM 0\ ^. who wishes to get a correct idea of. farm Hfe andwork in the South before the Civil War should be re-minded of several very important facts, (i) Much ofthe land in the South was un-cultivated; thetraveller mightride for milesthrough forestsand wild wasvery sparse inmost , thefields exhaustedby cotton culti-vation were leftto become overgrown with weeds and brush. (2) Wehave previously seen that not all, nor even most, of thecultivated land was found in the large cotton were mainly in the localities of the richest there were small farms. Sometimes the smallfarmers had one or two slaves, but more often none atall. (3) It must be remembered that while in somerespects the great plantations were much alike, there. Southern Planters HouseAfter a sketch. I go AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES were yet many differences, just as to-day one may findin any large section of our country great differences inthe methods used by farmers. Some may be careful intiUing their soil, intelligent in the use of implements, andkind in their treatment of their animals, hired hands,and children. Others, again, may show exactly theopposite qualities and may be lazy, shiftless, and brutal at the sametime. Thesedifferences makeit difficult togive in a shortspace a good de-scription ofSouthern agri-culture. Onlysome of themore generalfeatures can course, the place of most interest in all the Southern country is thelarge plantation. This might embrace hundreds or thou-sands of acres, only part of which were in cultivated fields,worked by fifty, a hundred, op even more slaves. Theplanters house was a large, square, frame building, paintedwhite, with green shutt
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