. The story of agriculture in the United States. anding trees that had been killed by girdling. Theseed was dropped where an ax or a hoe opened a slitin the rich forest mold; and hereit yielded an abundant crop thefirst year. Fortunate, indeed, forthe settlement of our country wasthis gift of maize which was madeby nature and the AmericanIndian. The Puritan settlers in the col-ony of Massachusetts Bay, whocame about ten years after thesettlement of the Pilgrims atA Beaver Plymouth, founded Salem, Boston, Beaver skins were the sta- ^nd Other towns near by. They pie in the fur trade. ... found t
. The story of agriculture in the United States. anding trees that had been killed by girdling. Theseed was dropped where an ax or a hoe opened a slitin the rich forest mold; and hereit yielded an abundant crop thefirst year. Fortunate, indeed, forthe settlement of our country wasthis gift of maize which was madeby nature and the AmericanIndian. The Puritan settlers in the col-ony of Massachusetts Bay, whocame about ten years after thesettlement of the Pilgrims atA Beaver Plymouth, founded Salem, Boston, Beaver skins were the sta- ^nd Other towns near by. They pie in the fur trade. ... found the wmters cold and dis-agreeable as compared with the winters in England,but in the hot summers their crops grew abundantly,and after the first year they suffered no lack of was their principal crop, and much of this they tradedwith the Indians for beaver skins. Besides, saysone of their number, this country aboundeth naturallywith store of Roots of great variety, and good to Turnips, Parsnips, and Carrots are here both bigger. EARLY AGRICULTURE IN NEW ENGLAND 27 and sweeter than is ordinarily to be found in are also store of Pumpions, Cowcumbers, and otherthings of that nature. The cattle found tall, rich grassin open meadows, though the wolves were latter were caught with huge hooks baited with fator tallow. As in Virginia, the settlers of New England soon spreadbackward into the country. In Virginia the people movedup the broad rivers, each intent upon getting as muchland and raising as much tobacco as possible, and payinglittle attention to the affairs of his neighbors. In this waythe population became scattered, and there came to bemany large plantations. In New England the method ofsettlement was quite different, partly because the natureof the country was unlike that of Virginia, and partlybecause the Puritans carried out certain religious andpolitical ideas that they brought with them to America. When the first towns had be
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