. The story of agriculture in the United States. a new government in Spain,the officers, in order to get money, seized the estates ofrich landlords who had fought the French. Their flocksof merinos were sold and thousands were brought toAmerica. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison eachgot a pair of these sheep for their estates in had a plan for distributing free one ram to each FIRST IMPROVEMENTS 99 county in Virginia. He also improved the breed ofshepherd dogs. It may be said, then, that the forty years following]the American Revolution saw some hopeful signs of im- \provem
. The story of agriculture in the United States. a new government in Spain,the officers, in order to get money, seized the estates ofrich landlords who had fought the French. Their flocksof merinos were sold and thousands were brought toAmerica. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison eachgot a pair of these sheep for their estates in had a plan for distributing free one ram to each FIRST IMPROVEMENTS 99 county in Virginia. He also improved the breed ofshepherd dogs. It may be said, then, that the forty years following]the American Revolution saw some hopeful signs of im- \provement in our agriculture. Leading men were begin- ing to think and write upon the best methods, societieswere formed, papers were published, and the value ofhigh grade stock began to be appreciated. CHAPTER XPIONEER FARMERS OF THE WEST In colonial times, the Alleghany mountain rangeswere covered with forests and a dense undergrowth ofbrambles, shrubs, and vines. When the westward-movingsettlers passed through the gaps of the Blue Ridge, instead. View in the Alleghany IMountains of continuing straight west they went southwest betweenthe ranges. There were no roads over the mountains,only Indian trails. In many places it was impossible fora horse to push through the interlacing branches of thedense mountain forests. The first English colonists who visited the country be-yond the mountains were hunters and traders in furs. PIONEER FAR]\1ERS OF THE WEST lOI They returned to the coast and told of wonderfully richlands that stretched away to the Mississippi River,From this region the French were driven by the last Frenchand Indian war (1763). In the colonies there were plentyof sturdy, restless young men, eager for adventure andanxious to build for themselves new homes in the wilder-ness. Some had been indentured servants; others weresons in large families who had to make their own way inthe world; many were from the Scotch-Irish settlementsin Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. One
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