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Excerpt from Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd: A Township of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Settled, 1696, by Immigrants From Wales, With Some Data Referring to the Adjoining Township, of Montgomery, Also Settled by Welsh
III. TO this succeeded the time when in this community, as in every one from Boston to Savannah, the earlier colonial in?uences declined, and the new springs of energy which in the wider field were to manifest themselves in the effort for Independence, began to Show themselves. There were some changes in agriculture. The earlier methods had to be im proved. Pasture and hay lands Spread from the meadows into the upland fields, by the sowing of timothy seed, and later by the sowing Of clover seed, and the use Of land plas ter. Grazing therefore increased, and a rotation of crops began to be followed; hedges were planted, tillage became more thorough, and presently the plow with the iron mould-board appeared.
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