The Agricultural Gazette Of Canada

Author : William B. Varley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334556821
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book The Agricultural Gazette of Canada, Vol. 9 written by William B. Varley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Agricultural Gazette of Canada, Vol. 9: March-April, 1922 The corn crop of all America together has in one year been known to surpass the startling figure of three billion bushels, or probably more than all other cereals put together. As suggested, the corn crop is one that has long been cultivated in this country; as proof, Columbus in his report to Isabella. Queen of Spain, after his first voyage of discovery in 1498, stated that he had seen growing on this continent fields of oorn eighteen miles long. Cartier, a few years later, in 1535, describes the Indian Village of Hochelaga (where Montreal now stands) as being surrounded by large fields of growing corn at the time of his visit. In 1685 the English, in connection with one of their wars with the 'seneca Indians, claimed to have destroyed about acres of corn in what is now the State of New York, and Frontenac in 1690 spent several days destroying corn in the same State in connection with his trouble with the Onondaga Indians. 'other early explorers 'in Ithe western parts of the United. States and Canada, such as De: Soto and Lasalle, make mention of large fields of corn. Thus, we have ample proof that corn was the great staple of the Indians long before the white man reached the shores of this continent. European settlers early learned the use of this cereal from the Indians and, with them as with the Indians, it soon became the staple crop. Certain of the Commanders bringing over groups of colonists to the United States, gave them small areas of land on condition that they plant it with corn, showing the high esteem in which this crop was held by those responsible for the early development of this continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.