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28730	Carrier, Lyman	Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699			.txt	text/plain	13352	833	76	crops, the English colonists adopted the Indian method of seeding, Bay for the purpose of founding a colony in the land called Virginia. of their first attempts to plant corn, probably English grain, they Jamestown to allow for clearing land for spring-seeded grains. sheepe." Captain John Smith during his two years with the colony was the culture of a crop new to English farming completely changed their mild varieties since the tobacco grown by the Virginia Indians had a 1632, took 2,000 bushels of corn from Virginia to New England. Virginia General Assembly, in 1666, prohibited all culture of tobacco tobacco soils of Virginia have been cropped and then allowed to go West Indian colonies when the price for tobacco fell below the cost Some English grains were seeded in the cleared land tobacco, or was old Indian fields, is not stated. In the early years at Jamestown, much grain was shipped from England	./cache/28730.txt	./txt/28730.txt