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To: Krowbar who wrote (46368)	7/22/1999 3:07:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

New England soils with few exceptions were stony, wooded, thin, and not naturally fertile. Of course, the great Maine potato farms were great and still are pretty good. Much of the history of this country is based on New Englanders going to sea, or to the mills, or to the west in order to make a living. A little fruit, a little tobacco (Connecticut!) and that's about it. Still a good place to get an education (if you can afford it).

To: Krowbar who wrote (46368)	7/22/1999 3:19:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

What is the reason that farmlands in the New England states have reverted to forest? Was it a planned change, or economics, or what? Too much work for too little yield. Short growing season, and the glacial moraine left so many rocks that gardeners swear they generate spontaneously. New England farmers had to be tough, stoic, folk, and eventually it just got easier to go to town and take a job in the factory. Finding their legacies is wonderful, though. The best apples I ever ate in my life came from a trio of ancient trees that we found at a long-crumbled farm site, while hiking in the Poconos (Pennsylvania). Used to go back year after year, finding branches carrying so much fruit that they were bent to the ground. Eventually a developer dammed the stream to form a shallow lake (which was silting up only a few years after he dammed it), and bulldozed the trees to make way for a resort development, which billboards advertised as (no shit) "the bestest place in the whole pokey-nose". Progress.