a henn nor a chick in
the forte (and our horses and mares they had eaten with the
first).

[Illustration:

A

NEW INSTRVCTION

OF PLOWING AND SETTING

OF CORNE, HANDLED

IN MANNER, OF A DIALOGVE

betweene a Ploughman and a

_Scholler_.

_Wherein is proved plainely that Plowing and_

Setting, is much more profitable and lesse

chargeable, than Plowing and

Sowing.

By EDVVARD MAXEY. Gent.

_He that withdraweth the Corne, the people will curse him: but
blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth Corne._
Prou.11.26.

Imprinted at London by _Felix Kyngston_, dwelling in Pater noster
Rowe, over against the signe of the Checker, 1601.

Photo by Thomas L. Williams]

[Illustration: Indians boiling maple sap below and planting corn
above.

Picture by Lafitau, 1724.]

[Illustration: The earliest picture of Maize.

Copied from Leonhard Fuchs 1542.]

And Reverend William Simmonds states in regard to this same starving
time of the winter of 1609-10:

as for our hogs, hens, goats, sheepe, horse, or what lived; our
commanders and officers did daily consume them: some small
proportions (sometimes) we tasted, till all was devoured.

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 of farming. To make a bad
situation worse the Indians began to make trouble. Lord De La Warr
speaks of their "late injuries and murthering of our men." It was not
until 1611 that real farming got under way at Jamestown. Then corn
planting and fence building began in earnest.

GOVERNOR DALE TAKES CHARGE

Sir Thomas Dale with "three ships, men, and cattell (100 kine, 200
swine)" arrived in Virginia May 10, 1611. Dale had seen military
service in the Old World and was a severe and strict disciplinarian.
The surviving colonists received a jolt in their manner of living.
From habits of indolence into which they had fallen, owing to the hot
climate and lack of food, after the departure of Captain John Smith,
they were with little ceremony put to work. "His first care therefore
was to imploy all hands in the setting of corne at the two forts at
Kecoughtan, Henry and Charles," wrote Ralph Hamor "and about the end
of May wee had an indifferent crop of good corne." This corn was
planted near what is now Hampton where Strachey says, "so much ground
is there clea