ORGANIZATION OF THE FARM 



mented with a sense of hunger. I remember how 

 narrowly the children watched the growth of 

 the potato tops, pumpkin and squash vines, hop- 

 ing from day to day, to get something to answer 

 in the place of bread. How delicious was the 

 taste of the young potatoes when we got them! 

 What a jubilee when we were permitted to pull 

 the young corn for roasting ears, Still more so 

 when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be 

 made into johnny cakes by the aid of a tin 

 grater." 1 



The agriculture of the North has gradually 

 been transformed until now the commercial ele- 

 ment dominates. Manufacturing was for a long 

 time a household industry carried on by nearly 

 every farm family, but in the course of time more 

 and more of this work was turned over to those 

 who made a specialty of manufactures. The 

 swift streams of New England were harnessed, 

 and made to turn the wheels of industry. This 

 movement followed but slowly the path of the 

 pioneer farmer, yet in the course of time the 

 older parts of the North became noted for their 

 manufactures. With the development of manu- 

 factures, a market has grown up for the ordinary 

 forms of farm produce, such as wheat, oats, pork, 

 beef and dairy products. As markets have de- 

 veloped and the means of transportation have been 



1 Reverend Joseph Doddridge, Hart's American History 

 Told by Contemporaries, Vol. II, p. 387. 



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