. New England; a human interest geographical reader. in them all through the year. In theadjacent fields several crops are raised each season. 143 144 New England As soon as one crop is marketed the ground isploughed, manured, and harrowed, and another cropstarted. Planting, cultivating, weeding, watering, and gathering these mar-ket garden crops giveemployment to manyhands. Onions, tobacco,hay, and fruit areimportant crops insome sections, andmilk has to be pro-duced in large quan-tities to supply thecity dwellers. Bos-ton requires so muchmilk that a greatdeal is brought to itby train from lo
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. in them all through the year. In theadjacent fields several crops are raised each season. 143 144 New England As soon as one crop is marketed the ground isploughed, manured, and harrowed, and another cropstarted. Planting, cultivating, weeding, watering, and gathering these mar-ket garden crops giveemployment to manyhands. Onions, tobacco,hay, and fruit areimportant crops insome sections, andmilk has to be pro-duced in large quan-tities to supply thecity dwellers. Bos-ton requires so muchmilk that a greatdeal is brought to itby train from longdistances. The big city of thecentral part of the state is Worcester. It was muchharassed by the Indians in its early days, and for along time it was so pestered by wolves that the peoplewere deterred from raising sheep. The occupationsof the inhabitants were chiefly agricultural. Now theplace is a great manufacturing city, especially notedfor the making of nails, screws, needles, wire, differentkinds of tools, envelopes, and boots and shoes. The. The Citv Hall, Worcester Bay State Industries and People 145 most extensive wire mill in the world is in , too, is the richly endowed Clark University. A favorite pleasure resort of the people is the lakeon its borders, which bears the resounding Indian nameof Quinsigamond. This name is a combination ofwords which mean the fishing-place for long-noses— that is, for pickerel. At Spencer, a few miles west of Worcester, wasborn in 1819 the inventor, Elias Howe. After he leftthe home farm in early manhood he worked in machineshops in Lowell and Boston. A chance remark abouta machine to do sewing set him to thinking. Aftermany years of experimenting, poverty, and discour-
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