greater part, if not all, of their labor. But if there should, notwithstanding, be time for other things, I know of nothing in which they could be more advantageously employed, than in getting up rich mud from the branches in field No. 8, to spread over the poor and washed parts of that field, before it is sown in wheat next August. Mansion-House Farm. The ditchers, after the post-and-rail fence, which they are now about, to the Tumbling Dam is completed, and a strong one put up across the Mill Run, as will be marked off, may continue on to the Mill by the line of stakes, which will be set up; but they are not to use for this purpose those posts, which were got by Marley's house, as they will be more convenient for the lane, which is to form the new road from the Ferry by the Mill, as authorized by the court. After this work is performed, it will be time enough to point out more. To say what the other part of the force at this place shall be employed about, is next to impossible, since there is such a variety of jobs for them to attend to, besides fishing, hay-making, and the grain harvest in their respective seasons, which must unavoidably employ them while they last. But, as it is designed to raise tobacco, and to tend in corn that part, at least, of the new ground in front of the house, which was cleared last year, in order that it may be laid down in the fall in wheat and orchard grass, they must prepare for them accordingly, and, under the circumstances above mentioned, attempt as much of the first, that is, tobacco, as there is a moral certainty of their tending well. The men may be employed in getting posts and rails of a good kind for the purpose of enclosing this tobacco. But it is essential, if any labor is expected from the girls and boys, who are about this house, to keep some person with them, who will not only make them work, but who will see that the work is well executed, and that the idleness, which they appear every day in the practice of, may be avoided. FIRST STATEMENT OF THE CROPS IN 1789. of 1788 of the above work, 94 Corn; 375 acres. 1 ploughing in the fall Three times harrowed, do. do. Rye; 375 acres. Once ploughed for seeding in September, Once harrowed Buckwheat; 375 acres. One ploughing after Rye comes off, Har Acres. Acres. rowed. 375 31 281 281 do. each 281, 843 Three harrowings, 1 before, and 2 after sowing, Wheat; 375 acres. Ploughing in buckwheat in June, One harrowing after sowing, 375 375 Sundries; 375 acres. 75 do. One ploughing in the fall of 1788, 8 do. Scarcity ploughed in March, Between the 1st of October and Christmas, Corn amounts to Buckwheat for manure, Do. for seed, Pumpkins, second ploughing, 8; Root of Scarcity, 8, 16 June, ploughing Corn second time, 375 520 1125 May, Breaking balks between Corn, do. Buckwheat for manure, July, Buckwheat for seed, Third ploughing of Corn, August, Wheat, September, Rye, Third do. Root of Scarcity, 8; Pumpkins, 8, 16 531 375 375 281 281 234 281 531 281 281 281 Three harrowings, Corn; 375 acres. Same in all respects as No. 1, Wheat; 375 acres. One ploughing after the Buckwheat is cut, Second do. last of June, Har Acres. Acres. rowed. 1343 843 375 1125 375 750 1025 762 750 1125 4243 4605 May, first ploughing of Buckwheat among the sundries, Pumpkins, second ploughing, 8 acres; Scarcity, 8 do. ploughing balks between Corn, first time, 234 16 281 531 281 THIRD STATEMENT OF CROPS FOR 1789. Har Acres. rowed. Corn; 375 acres. The same as No. 1 and No. 2, Barley; 375 acres. do. and Corn in August, Flax; 20 acres. Ploughed twice, harrowed three times, do. do. |
