. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . it. The Indians gather it, and use it
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . it. The Indians gather it, and use it as anyother seed. Early travellers used to call it pin-grass. The culti- : . Wild oats. vated variety was introduced into this country by Gosnold in 1602,and it attained a much more extensive culture than either barley or rye. Oflate years the Department of Agriculture has done much to disseminate choicevarieties of seed for experiment, as also of barley. The census- statistics ofreturns of 1840 put the total product of the country at 123,071,- bushels: in 1850 it had increased to 146,584,179, in i860 to 172,643,-185, and in 1870 to 282,107,157 bushels. Its distribution is more largelyin the central and Ohio-valley sections of the Northern States. As will beseen from the table appended to this chapter, the last census showed Illinoisto be the leading producer, with Pennsylvania second, New York a close third,and the Western grain States next in order. Our oat-crop is almost entirelyconsumed at home, and the exports are very THKESHEK, SElAKATOR, AND CLEANER. Rye ranks next to wheat, among the grains, as an article of human diet inthis country. In ancient Britain they were planted together. It grows onsterile soils in high latitudes, and is not only the prevailing grainof Northern Europe, but is also prevalent in the colder parts ofthe United States. In bread-making, rye-flour is usually mixed with In-dian-meal ; and the product is still very popular, thoug
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