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Economics (Paperback)
Henry Rogers Seager
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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CHAPTER III INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES (concluded)
21. Agriculture remains to-day, as it was in the colonial Progress
of period, the dominant industry of the United States. This gr cu"
has been the natural result of the extensive area of fertile land
with which the country is endowed, and its still relatively sparse
population. Of its principal agricultural products, three, corn,
white potatoes and tobacco, were indigenous to the New World. The
first, because of the ease with which it may be grown on new land,
has contributed more than any other plant to the material
development of the country. In colonial days, corn, hay, wheat and
potatoes were leading crops in the North; corn, tobacco, rice and
indigo in the South. With the invention of the cotton gin, a
machine for separating the cotton seed from the cotton fiber
devised by Eli Whitney in 1794, and of spinning machinery capable
of treating the short-fibered variety of cotton which alone
flourished on the mainland, that product began to be, as it has
ever since remained, "king" in the Southern States; but corn, hay,
wheat and potatoes continued to be the staples of the North. As
cities arose truck and dairy farming to supply their needs became
profitable. Meantime the pressing back of the Indians encouraged
the keeping of stock, since this is practicable only in localities
where property can be protected. Agricultural methods, both North
and South, prior to the Civil War, were exhausting to the soil, and
the wearing out of old lands was a strong incentive urging settlers
to bring the superior soils of the Mississippi Valley under
cultivation. The cheapness of land and the dearness of labor have
been conditions favorable to the invention and use of labor-saving
tools and machines. American farmers we...
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