Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United StatesThe editor, 1847 - 198 Seiten |
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... who , from old age or bodily infirmities , and others , who , on account of their infancy , will be unable to support themselves , it is my will and desire , that all , who come under the first and second description , shall be ...
... who , from old age or bodily infirmities , and others , who , on account of their infancy , will be unable to support themselves , it is my will and desire , that all , who come under the first and second description , shall be ...
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Acres Field America annual product answer arable ARTHUR YOUNG Augustine Washington average Barley beef buck-wheat bushels bushels of wheat Bushrod Washington calculation capital cattle cents per bushel communications crops cultivation deceased dogs Dogue Creek Dogue Run dollars eight bushels England expense farmers favour five Flax four Franklin county give and bequeath grain grass hire Hogs honour horses hundred acres hundred bushels husbandry improvement Indian corn inquiries interest labour leases less letter Little Hunting Creek manure Maryland meadow mentioned miles MOUNT VERNON mountains mutton negroes oats obedient object pasture Pennsylvania Philadelphia plough potatoes Potomac pounds price of land produce profit quantity queries raised rents respect river seed servant sheep SIR JOHN SINCLAIR situation soil sowed sterling suppose taxes thing thirty tobacco twenty bushels twenty-five Virginia wheat white clover wolves woodland wool yield
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Seite 11 - It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public puree ; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety...
Seite 11 - Boards, composed of proper characters, charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aid, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement. This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement, by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre, the results everywhere of individual skill and observation, and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has shown,...
Seite 22 - The general custom has been, first to raise a crop of Indian corn (maize) which according to the mode of cultivation, is a good preparation for wheat; then a crop of wheat; after which the ground is respited (except from weeds, and every trash that can contribute to its foulness) for about eighteen months; and so on, alternately, without any dressing, till the land is exhausted; when it is turned out, without being sown with grass-seeds, or any method taken to restore it; and another piece is ruined...
Seite 22 - ... is ruined in the same manner.) No more cattle is raised than can be supported by lowland me"adows, swamps, &c, and the tops and blades of Indian corn; as very few persons have attended to sowing grasses, and connecting cattle with their crops. The Indian corn is the chief support of the labourers and horses. Our lands, as I mentioned in my first letter to you, were originally very good; but use, and abuse, have made them quite otherwise.
Seite 116 - America," observes he, in one of his letters, " is more pleasantly situated In a high and healthy country ; in a latitude between the extremes of heat and cold ; on one of the finest rivers in the world ; a river well stocked with various kinds of fish at all seasons of the year, and in the spring with shad, herrings, bass, carp, sturgeon, etc., in great abundance.