Spray Plantation, Near the St. Mary's River, Maryland, l661

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Tobacco-Growing Affects Choice of Livestock

     There are no sheep or goats on the plantation because watching them or penning them to protect them from wolves is extra work. If livestock are penned or fenced then they must be fed. The Spray's have little time to tend animals or raise crops for feed. They are too busy producing tobacco.

Cattle protect themselves with their horns.	Hogs are fierce and can fight off wolves.
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