The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . The raising of rice spreadinto Georgia when that colony was settled. In 1741 an energetic young lady. Miss Eliza Lucas,began to try experiments in growing the indigo-plant inSouth Carolina. A frost destroyed the first crop thatshe planted, and a worm cut down the next. Theindigo-maker brought fi-om the West Indies tried to de-ceive her afterward, but by 1745 this persevering younglady had proved that indigo could be grown in SouthCarolina, and in two years more two hundred thousandpounds of it were exported. It wa
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . The raising of rice spreadinto Georgia when that colony was settled. In 1741 an energetic young lady. Miss Eliza Lucas,began to try experiments in growing the indigo-plant inSouth Carolina. A frost destroyed the first crop thatshe planted, and a worm cut down the next. Theindigo-maker brought fi-om the West Indies tried to de-ceive her afterward, but by 1745 this persevering younglady had proved that indigo could be grown in SouthCarolina, and in two years more two hundred thousandpounds of it were exported. It was a leading crop forabout fifty years, but, when the growing of cotton wasmade profitable by the invention of the cotton-gin, thatcrop took the place of indigo. corn the settlers got from the Indians. It wasunknown in Europe. From it was made the most of the bread eat-en by Americans before the Revolution. It wasalso shipped to the West Indiesfrom Virginia and North York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania formed theofreat wheat region ol the colonial time. These colo-. FARMIXG AXD SHIPPING IN THE COLONIES. It nies sent wheat, flour, and hard-tack bread inlarge quantities to the West Indies and the coun-tries on the Mediterranean Sea. Many thousandsof great country wagons were employed in bring-ing grain to Philadelphia. Potatoes had beenbrought to Europe probably from South America ;but they were unknown to the Indians in what isnow the United States. They were taken to Vir-ginia at the first settlement of Jamestown. Potatoeswere not planted in New England fields until thought that, if a man were to eat potatoes everyday for seven years, he would die. Cattle and hogs were brought from England very cattie horse early, and were grown by thousands in the the most part they ran in the woods, having markson them to show to whom they belonged. Many cattlegrew up without marks of ownership, and were hunt-ed as wild. There were cow-pens established forrais
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