. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . England and Bavaria, and are not sough
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . England and Bavaria, and are not sought for, exceptExport of when the crops in Europe are short. Thus in 1855 we exportedhops- a trifle over four million pounds, whereas during no previous year had we exported much more than a quarter of a million pounds. In 1856the export was but a trifle over a million, and in 1857 a trifle under amillion. During the next twenty years the crop gradually reached and passedthe figures of 1855. In 1875 we exported 5,331,950, and in 1876 nearly9,000,000 pounds. Flax, the fibre from which linen is made, grows wild in nearly all countriesof the globe, but was probably cultivated first in Egypt. It is very largelygrown in the north of Europe; Russia, Belgium, and Irelandhaving a wide reputation for the quantity and quality of theirproduct. The plant has other uses too. Its seed yields a valuable oil forpainting and burning, — namely, the linseed-oil; and the refuse oil-cake, asalso the ground meal, are highly prized as fodder for cattle. The seed is used. Flax. OF THE UNITED STATES. medicinally, and in several other exceedingly useful ways. It was first grownin the New Netherlands, or New York, in this country, in 1626, in Massa-chusetts in 1629, and in Virginia before 1648. The British Parliament offeredbounties for its culture by the patentees of Georgia in 1733, 1743, and raised a sufficient crop to export 70,000 bushels of flaxseedin 1752, and by 1771 had increas
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