as almost whollyunknown seventy-five years ago. The first horticultural society was formed in1829. Before that time fruit was not an item of commercial statistics in ourcountry. But as late as 1876 the average annual value of fruit was estimatedat ^40,000,000, the grape crop alone exceeding in… … Chicago Stock Yards generally inferior. In 1772, Washington wrote in his diary, With one hundredmilch cows on my farm, I have to buy butter for my family. . . . Now thereare about 44,000,000 horned cattle in the United States, equal in average qualityto those of any country in the world. The…
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