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HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



Agriculture in Connecticut has been directed in its loca- 

 tion partly by soil and climate, but more especially by some 

 accidental circumstances. 



Thus tobacco finds a congenial soil in the valleys of the 

 Connecticut and Housatonic rivers and their tributaries. 

 Litchfield and Windham have led in the dairy, while the 

 growth of cities and manufacturing villages has made demand 

 not only for the products of agriculture that pertain to them, 



LAKE WANGUM, NORFOLK'S WATER SUPPLY. 



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but also for a supply of food that does not allow of trans- 

 portation. 



In manufactures, Litchfield county leads in iron, Fairfield 

 county in hats, the Naugatuck valley in brass and copper, 

 Eastern Connecticut took cotton, for was it not near Rhode 

 Island ? 



" Did you ever go to Pawtucket ? 



Lord, what a racket, 

 Fifty crabs in a bucket." 



These and other manufactures of wool, rubber, tools, and 

 machinery have been scattered every where, water power being 

 the chief element in controlling location till steam power has 



