. 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 . rm express-ly for this work. A contrib
. 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 . rm express-ly for this work. A contribu-tor to Harpers Magazine says of this stage of the in-dustrys development, — The face of the county(Herkimer) became dotted CHURN. x 7 with dairy-houses as withcorn-cribs. These were, for the most part, simple, unpretentious one-storystructures, distinguished from the other out-buildings by closely-battened cracks and protruding stovepipe. The apparatus wassimple and rude, and the system of manufacture a familys secret, impartedwith wise looks and an oracular phrase. Skill was vested in intuition : it wasthe maidens dower, the matrons pride. ... It was during this period of severeapplication and large rewards that Herkimer County achieved that reputationfor fancy cheese which is still her traditional right. Cheese prod- An idea °f tne distribution of the cheese-production at theuct prior to end of twenty years of this experience may be gathered from thel85° following statement of the cheese production, in pounds, from the census of 1S50 : —. HerkimerCounty. OF THE UNITED STATES. 129 New York 49,741,413 Ohio . . - .« 20,819,542 Vermont. 8,720,834 Massachusetts 7,088,142 Connecticut 5,363,277 New Hampshire 3,196,563 Pennsylvania . 2,505,034 Maine . . ... ...... 2,434,454 Illinois 1,278,225 Michigan 1,011,492 Other States 3*366,917 Total . .... .... 105,535,893 From this it will be seen that New York made nearly half of the countrysproduct; and that, except Ohio, the New-E
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