. New England; a human interest geographical reader. arly all the coal has to be broughtfrom distant mines, yet New England mills and workersare so highly developed that the region continues to bea great centre for manufacturing all those wares inwhich the chief essentials of production are skilledlabor and mechanical genius. As a farming region New England is a good dealhandicapped. Much of it is mountainous or stony,and the only very fertile portions are in the river valleysand along the coast. A large part of Maine is wilder- Life and Nature, Past and Present 9 ness and swamps. The farms fa
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. arly all the coal has to be broughtfrom distant mines, yet New England mills and workersare so highly developed that the region continues to bea great centre for manufacturing all those wares inwhich the chief essentials of production are skilledlabor and mechanical genius. As a farming region New England is a good dealhandicapped. Much of it is mountainous or stony,and the only very fertile portions are in the river valleysand along the coast. A large part of Maine is wilder- Life and Nature, Past and Present 9 ness and swamps. The farms fall far short of producingenough to feed the people, and the great food staples,such as wheat, corn, and oats, are largely brought fromthe West. None of the states raises wheat except Maine andVermont, and in those the amount is small. Corn andoats are both important New England crops, and Con-necticut and Massachusetts have good-sized tobacco-growing sections. Apples and other fruits are largelycultivated, and market gardening is done on a generous. Water power on a typical New England stream scale near the cities. Dairying is a great much milk is needed in the big cities that it issometimes carried on trains that convey nothing else lo New England but milk cans from far out in the country. A greatdeal of milk is used also in making butter and cheese. There has long been a decreasing population in theupland towns. This dates back to the building ofrailroads and to the great development of manufactur-ing that began somewhat earlier. Traffic and tradeand invention increased the social attraction of thelarge towns as compared with that of the countryhamlets and lonely farms. Besides, mowing machinesand other agricultural machines began to be were ill-adapted for work on the rocky, unevenupland, and remoteness from railways or marketsthere made it difficult to dispose of crops. Farm lifeunder such circumstances returned so little in pleasureor profit that it
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