Excerpt from The Story of McLean County and Its SchoolsGardens and orchards furnish fresh vegetables and fruit to many homes during the summer months, and, in addition, food for winter is canned or stored by freezing. Fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as staples, can be pur chased the year around. Contrast this with the monotonous diet of early settlers, particularly during the winter months. Instead of hunting for deer, turkey, and other game, meat is raised on farms or can easily be purchased. At a winter butchering of years ago, a year's supply of meat was prepared by curing in salt, smoking or canning. Now custom butchering has taken its place.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.