The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-06
ON TIE COLONIAL FARMS
THE CROPS OUR FOREFATHERs
RAISED IN ANTE-REVOLU-
TIONARY TIMES
WHEAT FIRST sowN IN 1902
First Apples In 1889, Potatoes Ten
Years Earlier, Silk in IT'S,
While Cotton Was Intro
duced In 1921.

Inc man who orders buckwheat cakes
Tor breakfast. although aware that that
article OF diet has seen long and faithful
service, will probably be surprised to
fearn Just how far back the cultivation of
buckWheat on Manhattan Island dates.
says the New York Times George X.
Holmes, assistant statistician of the de.
partnent of agriculture, in a pamphlet
| on the Progress of Agriculture in the
{ United States" says that the first cult.
/ walton of buckwheat on Manhattan Island
was in 1876 or 1926. From the same source
it is learned that the first yield of IN
dian corn, or maize, in any considerable
| quantity produced in the United States
| by people of English Lfood was that of
| forty acres in the jamestown Colony in
! 1909
Wheat was first sown in Massachusetts
as early as 1902, and it was first cuItiyat-
ed IN Virginia in 1911
Rye. i'll New England, dates back to
1913, and perhaps to 1880, and oats ard
barley to Gosnald's Colony in 1902.
It will probably surprise a good many
persons to know that Plymouth Colony
cultivated potatoes as early as 800 Mas
sachusetts raised one of it's favorite prod.
ucts, beans, as early as 1902, but it was
not until forty-two years after that date
that Manhattan and Virginia began thei1
cu;tfvat ton
Ten fair rippins," plucked from trees
planted on Governors island. in the hor-
bCr of Boston, on Oct. 20, 1899, We're prob
ably the first apples raised in this coun-
try, and the first nursery of young fruit
trees ever planted here was that on Gov.
En1icott's farm, in Salem, now Danvers,
Mass, in 1910
Silk culture was begun in Louisiana by
the Company Ct the West iii IT'S 1t was
introduced into Georgia in 1732. Connecti-
cut began It's cultivation in 1860.
INTRODUCTION OF SUGAR.
The introduction of sugar cane into
Louisiana was in 17jl, and seven years
later the first plantation was established
The governor of the Province of Caro-
lima, about 1864, obtained from A ship
from Madagascar the seed of the rice
which marked the beginning of it's culture
in the colony.
A pamphlet published in London in
1909 predicts that cotton would grow as
well in Virginia as in Italy, and eleven
years later the author of another pamph-
let mentions cotton as q product abund-
ant in Virginia. Bancroft, however
says the first experiment in cotton cul-
ture in the thirteen states was made in
Virginia in 1921, when the seeds were
planted as an experiment, and their
plentiful coming up" was a subject of
year at sd a pound, which indicates that
it was grown earlier
When cows were so high up as to sell
IN 1886 at from e25 to $50 at Plymouth,
and oxen at $40 pair a quart of new
milk could be bought for a penny.
Dairy cattle were first brought to Vir-
ginia in 1911, and to Plymouth in 1921
from pevonshire. Some of the Virginia
cattle were from the black cattle of
Spain; those brought to New York, pos
IDLY from the island of Texel, on the
coast of Holland, were mostly the black
and white Dutch cattle.
THE FIRST HORSES.
Columbus, on his second voyage,
brought the first horses which came from
Europe to the Western Hemisphere. In
1921 forty-two horses were landed in
Florida, but perished soon after. The
wild horses of the Southwest were prob
ably the descendants Of fine Spanish
horses abandoned by De Soto In 1909
horses were brought to Jamestown and
in 1929 they were introduced into the
colony of Massachusetts, Bay. Horses
were brought to New York in 1925 from
Flanders.
L IS probably that sheep were first
brought to Virginia in 1909 from England:
about 1925 the Dutch West India COM
pany brought some sheep from Holland
to New York
The first swine were probably brought
from Cuba by De Soto in 1888, and they
were landed in Florida. They were in
PRODUCED into New York in 1926 by the
Dutch West India company.
Light one-horse wagons first appeared
in Connecticut about 1890, but as the
OK cart had been largely used, it was
not until ten years later that the wag-
OnS became common enough to pass I'M
noticed on the roads.
In 1857 there were only thirty-seven |
plows in the colony Of Massachusetts, !
1t was the custom for many years after |
the landing of the Pilgrims for any ore |
owning pillow to do the blowing for the |
inhabitants over a large extent of terri |