. The story of agriculture in the United States. part of cloth while father would 158 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES put on the soles. He had a cupboard always well stockedwith cobblers supplies. A few times in the course of the year, father withmother or one of the older girls would go to Rochester,thirty miles away, with a load of farm produce, wool,butter, cheese, eggs, chickens, etc. to exchange for house-hold supplies which could be procured more satisfac-torily than at our httle village stores. Peddlers suppliedmany of our wants. Such was the character of rural Hfe three-quarters ofa c
. The story of agriculture in the United States. part of cloth while father would 158 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES put on the soles. He had a cupboard always well stockedwith cobblers supplies. A few times in the course of the year, father withmother or one of the older girls would go to Rochester,thirty miles away, with a load of farm produce, wool,butter, cheese, eggs, chickens, etc. to exchange for house-hold supplies which could be procured more satisfac-torily than at our httle village stores. Peddlers suppliedmany of our wants. Such was the character of rural Hfe three-quarters ofa century ago. One who is interested in doing so mightreadily make a list of the customs and appliances offarm and home that have disappeared; and he mightenumerate in comparison the features that have takentheir places, and still others that are entirely new. CHAPTER XIVPRAIRIE AGRICULTURE The Ohio River was at first the great highway for thewestward-moving settlers. From this river they jour-neyed both northward and southward, using the streams. The Untamed Prairie that enter it, and also the Indian trails, before the build-ing of roads. They also ascended the Mississippi and itstributaries. Everywhere they found that the countrylying near to the rivers was covered with splendid this condition they were accustomed, and they usedthe methods already described in clearing the land and i6o AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES beginning the work of farming. Going farther north-ward, however, into northern Indiana and Illinois, thefrontier settlers found stretches of open prairie landbetween the forest belts that lined the rivers. Andfinally, in the region bordering the Great Lakes andacross the Mississippi in Iowa and Minnesota, therewere thousands of square miles of level or rolling prairies,without any continuous forest whatever, though scatteredgroves were frequent. One who lived upon the Illinois prairie in the early daysdescribes it as follows: The charm of a prairie cons
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