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Finally, we've completely settled in Chesapeake Bay.

Food to feed 10,000 people continues to be supplied, and the harvest of potatoes, wheat, and barley keeps increasing. The number of livestock has also grown considerably since the beginning.

This means we can now conduct challenging 'experiments'.

I gathered the settlement representatives who had been running around with computers and said:

"Now, we're going to prepare for corn cultivation."

The effort I put into preserving corn seeds while working hard on my garden finally pays off.

"What? By corn, do you mean that crop with yellow kernels that we grow?"

"Yes, that's right, Manteo. It has excellent productivity and tastes good too."

"But don't we and other natives already grow it on our own?"

"I have superior seeds. Besides, the natives have only cultivated it on a small scale until now."

I couldn't grow it until now either. The reason was clear.