Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699

[Transcriber's Note: This eText was produced from _Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699_ as published in 1957. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyri...

Thus after three years they had nothing of a material nature to show for their efforts. Their most valuable achievement had been their acquired knowledge of the Indians' methods...

There is very little justification for including silk culture as an enterprise in the agricultural history of the Jamestown Colony. It was one product that was usually placed fi...

Having thus generally runne over (in a short computation) the labours of the husbandman, I will now briefly as I can, goe over the particular daies labours of a farmer or plowma...