"The great articles of cultivation in the United States are grass, grain, and cotton.

The grass is cultivated in the northern states, the grain in the middle states, and the cotton in the southern states.

The grass is food for beasts, the grain is food for man, and the cotton is for clothing.

These different kinds of cultivation are not indeed exclusive in the different districts.

Some grass is raised in the middle and southern states, and some grain is raised in the northern states; but, in general, the great agricultural production of the northern states is grass, and these farms among the mountains in Vermont are grass farms.
"There is one striking difference," continued Forester, "between the grass farms of the north, and the grain farms of the middle states, or the cotton plantations of the south.