. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. Cutting Grass with the Scythe. 526 STAGES OF PROGRESS IN THE UNITED Threshing with the Flail. Tobacco.—Tobacco, found first by Raleighs colonists in1585 on Roanoke Island, began to be regularly cultivated in Virginia in 1612. Its culturesoon became the great industryof that colony. In 1619 overforty thousand pounds wereshipped abroad; in 1640 overone million five hundred thou-sand pounds. At present nearlyone thousand million pounds areannually produced in this coun-try, worth more than ninety mil-lion doll
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. Cutting Grass with the Scythe. 526 STAGES OF PROGRESS IN THE UNITED Threshing with the Flail. Tobacco.—Tobacco, found first by Raleighs colonists in1585 on Roanoke Island, began to be regularly cultivated in Virginia in 1612. Its culturesoon became the great industryof that colony. In 1619 overforty thousand pounds wereshipped abroad; in 1640 overone million five hundred thou-sand pounds. At present nearlyone thousand million pounds areannually produced in this coun-try, worth more than ninety mil-lion dollars. About two-fifths ofthis is grown in Kentucky, whichhas become the great tobacco-producing State. The commerce of America be-gan with tobacco. The demand for it in Europe grew rap-idly, new ground was constantly cleared for its cultivation,and the plantation system, with slave labor, was one time it was planted even in the streets of served as money, the salaries of clergymen and publicofficers were paid in it, and until the Revolution it wasalmost the only currency of Virginia. Wheat, Rice, Indigo, and Sugar.—Whea
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