How did farming in the Northeast differ from that in the South?
1 Answer
What was farmed, size of farms, length of season.
Explanation:
The soil in the northeast very rocky, remnants of the last ice age. In New England, farmers spent the first week of the new season dragging out rocks turned over in the first plowing of the season. A season which begins in early May. Farms tended to be small. With few exceptions, crops grown in the northeast never went more than a few miles from where they were grown.
Conversely, the south farm was frequently known as a plantation, speaking to its large size. But unlike the multi-crop farms of the north, southern farms tended to be single crop, cotton, tobacco, being the prime crops. Southern farmers have a much longer growing season allowing for multiple harvest dates and a very wide range of crops. Even more, the south could grow many crops unsuitable for the more northern climes, oranges, lemons, to name a few.
