. La storia di mais e la migrazione verso ovest. ia. Lessthan un mese dopo il trattato è stato reso Boonefounded Boonesboro, che divenne il headquartersof la colonia. Dall'energia indescrivibile, coraggio e heroismof Daniel Boone il modo in cui è stata aperta finalmente forhundreds degli emigranti dalla seaboard a entrarenella grande prairie paese. Il vecchio trailthrough indiano Cumberland Gap è stata allargata in una roadknown come il deserto di strada, che becamethe autostrada principale tra il litorale e theland oltre le montagne. Questo Kentucky coun-prova adesso è diventato una parte del territorio della Virginia. 102 La storia o

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. The story of corn and the westward migration. ia. Lessthan a month after the treaty was made Boonefounded Boonesboro, which became the headquartersof the colony. By the indescribable energy, courage, and heroismof Daniel Boone the way was finally opened forhundreds of emigrants from the seaboard to enterthe great prairie country. The old Indian trailthrough Cumberland Gap was widened into a roadknown as The Wilderness Road, which becamethe main highway between the seaboard and theland beyond the mountains. This Kentucky coun-try now became a part of the territory of Virginia. 102 The Story of Corn Fertility of the Western Country. In 1779, whenthe pioneers and settlers were pouring through thepasses of the mountains into the great plain nowknown as Kentucky, Virginia offered each house-holder four hundred acres of laiid at the rate of twodollars and a half a hundred acres, on conditionthat a house should be built and corn planted withina year. A writer describing this new country said: *A log house is very soon erected. Sometimes. Photograph by Wm. Baylis A typical home of the early settlers in the corn country they are built of round logs entirely, covered withrived ash shingles, and the interstices stopped withclay or lime and sand to* keep out the weather. Thenext object is to open the land for cultivation.There is very little underwood in any part of thiscountry, so that by cutting up the cane and grubbing up the trees you are sure of a corn crop The ground will yield from fifty to sixty bushels of cornto the acre. The second crop will be more ample; opening the Great Corn Country loj and as the shade is removed by cutting the timberaway, a great part of our land will produce fromseventy to one hundred bushels of corn fromone acre.^ This extraordinary fertility enables thefarmer who has but a small capital to increasehis wealth in a most rapid manner/ A hundred bushels of corn to the acre is indeed abountiful yield, and with thousands of buffaloesflourishing o

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