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Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of circulation, rapidly developed. Among these may be mentionedThe Maine Farmer, The Rural New-Yorker, The Country Gentle-man, The Ohio Farmer, The Michigan Farmer, The Valley Farmer,The Wisconsin Farmer, The North-western Farmer, The SouthernPlanter. There are now between fifty and sixty weekly and monthly agricul-tural periodicals in this country. Besides these, many other papers devotea special department to agriculture, stock-raising, dairying, poultry, and fruit. Then, too, within the past forty years, a considerable number of books havebeen written on special topics in agricultural and horticultural science ; AndrewAgricultural Jackson Downing having been one of the earliest and most prolificbooks. writers on the subject. The reports of the United-States Govern- ment, first prepared by a clerk of the Patent Office in 1839, and then, after1862, by the commissioner of the Agricultural Bureau, have also proved•exceedingly valuable accessions to this class of American literature.
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32 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CHAPTER II, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. can inven-tive genius ONE of the most interesting and important features in the history ofAmerican agriculture relates to the improvement of means for cultivat-ing the soil. The history is a record of marked originality, perseverance,Highcharac anc* S16^ triumphs, with enough of tragic disappointment orter of Ameri- pecuniary loss to spice the tale ; while the vast development givento American resources and wealth by the improvement of theseprerequisites to toil has given this nation its distinctive pre-emi-nence. Our highest rank among the peoples of the earth, in a material pointof view, is as an agricultural people ; and though great progress has been madein other industries, to which Americans can look with justifiable pride, im-provement in means for subduing and cultivating the land is still the mostmarked characteristic of native inventive genius. The most important of agricultural implements is the plough : besides, it

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