. The story of agriculture in the United States. re either unknown or usedmerely as a garden decoration. Theywere called love-apples, and werethought to be poisonous. Every farmhad its live-stock, from which came abountiful supply of milk, beef, pork, mut-ton, ham, and bacon. The latter weresmoked in the broad chimney or in a*smokehouse. Much beef was salted,since those were the days before ice wasstored. Quantities of salt meats, besides live-stock, wereshipped to the West Indies, where the planters kept theirslaves employed raising their most profitable crop — sugar—-and preferred to buy the
. The story of agriculture in the United States. re either unknown or usedmerely as a garden decoration. Theywere called love-apples, and werethought to be poisonous. Every farmhad its live-stock, from which came abountiful supply of milk, beef, pork, mut-ton, ham, and bacon. The latter weresmoked in the broad chimney or in a*smokehouse. Much beef was salted,since those were the days before ice wasstored. Quantities of salt meats, besides live-stock, wereshipped to the West Indies, where the planters kept theirslaves employed raising their most profitable crop — sugar—-and preferred to buy their food supply. When flax was grown on the New England farm therewere many different pro-cesses to be carried on, insome of which the childrencould assist their them the field wasweeded when the plantswere young. When the flaxwas cut the seeds were re-moved and the stalks weretied into bundles andstacked. Later, they werelaid in a ditch and coveredwith water, so that the barkand worthless parts of the stem rotted and could be re-. Flax Brake COLONIAL AGRICULTURE 59
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