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and go back a step further, back to his great-great grandpappy’s time in the colonies. Back then I think you would have found that controls on land use were pretty restrictive. More restrictive than what we have today.
“Virginia for example had strict building codes. They told the farmers how much of each particular crop you could plant on your land. Otherwise, everyone would plant all their land in tobacco and no one would bother to grow food.
“They also had laws requiring everyone to plant ten silk trees, which they thought would make the colonies self sufficient in silk. I Tn/^nr hool th romilatinnc thpv haH
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