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Tobacco-Growing Affects Diet
Even the
family diet is influenced by tobacco-growing. Their main food
crop or staple grain is corn. It grows well in Maryland and requires
little attention after planting.
The Sprays
don't eat bread made with wheat flour like they did in England.
To grow wheat, fields must be plowed. With so much forest land
in Maryland, it is difficult to clear the huge trees for a field
that can be plowed. Growing wheat would take too much time away
from growing tobacco.
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The thick forest make it hard to clear land to plow. |
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Corn is easier to grow than wheat. |
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