THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY 49 where improved machinery was manufacturing it into cloth. . . . The value ofthe cotton crop in 1792 was |!30,ooo. Now the reader can judge of its value,when he thinks of the production of over four billions of pounds annually. FRUIT CULTURE. Fruit culture, a hundred… … American Carriage Horse From Cosmopolitan family use. It was not till the beginning of the 19th century that any largeorchards were planted. The cultivation of grapes and berries was almost whollyunknown seventy-five years ago. The first horticultural society was formed in1829. Before that time…
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