The Story of Agriculture in the United States
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The long winter evenings were full of employment for busy fingers. Clothing was made at first from deer skins and buffalo wool; later from flax, hemp, and cotton raised on the farm.
Sometimes, before the crops were plentiful, the fiber of the wild nettle was used. Linsey-woolsey, a mixture of hnen and cotton, was the favorite cloth. It was spun and woven at home; the loom generally stood under the porch roof or in a lean-to at the rear of the house. For dyeing, the bark of the hickory or the bu...tternut made good coloring matter.
Cooking was done in the big fireplace, where pots and kettles hung on the cranes. "Johnnycake" was baked on a board in front of the fire. The Dutch oven was common — a three-legged iron pot with a flat bottom, COONSKIN I20 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES around which hot coals and ashes were piled. Often there were bake-ovens built outside the house. If brick were not to be had for this purpose, stones and baked clay were used. In such an oven a fire was built and afterward scraped out.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The long winter evenings were full of employment for busy fingers. Clothing was made at first from deer skins and buffalo wool; later from flax, hemp, and cotton raised on the farm.
Sometimes, before the crops were plentiful, the fiber of the wild nettle was used. Linsey-woolsey, a mixture of hnen and cotton, was the favorite cloth. It was spun and woven at home; the loom generally stood under the porch roof or in a lean-to at the rear of the house. For dyeing, the bark of the hickory or the bu...tternut made good coloring matter.
Cooking was done in the big fireplace, where pots and kettles hung on the cranes. "Johnnycake" was baked on a board in front of the fire. The Dutch oven was common — a three-legged iron pot with a flat bottom, COONSKIN I20 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES around which hot coals and ashes were piled. Often there were bake-ovens built outside the house. If brick were not to be had for this purpose, stones and baked clay were used. In such an oven a fire was built and afterward scraped out.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Sanford, Albert Hart, 1866- [from Old Catalog] to read onlineMoreLess
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