Evolution of Ibortfculture 



of the public officers was successful. This 

 "made all hands very industrious, so as 

 much more corn was planted than other- 

 wise would have been : and it gave far 

 better content. They now went willingly 

 into the field, and took their little ones 

 with them to set corn, whom to have 

 compelled would have been thought tyr- 

 anny and oppression." l 



The hardships which had been encoun- 

 tered by the colony at Plymouth were 

 now greatly diminished. The increased 

 harvests from their horticultural pursuits 

 more intelligently conducted, the extend- 

 ed trading in various articles, due to their 

 own enterprise, and the additions which 

 had been lately made to their diminished 

 numbers from the mother country, had 

 contributed to these happy results. 



During the struggles of the Plymouth 



colony for existence, attempts were made 



to settle other plantations in New Bng- 



land. During 1622, as has already been 



stated, a settlement under Weston was 



1 Bradford, p. 134. 



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