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 day, I find will fully answer my expectation, and that it drops the 

 grains thicker, or thinner in proportion to the quantity of seed in 

 the Barrel. The less there is in it the faster it issues from the 

 holes. The weight of a quantity in the barrel, occasions (I presume) 

 a pressure on the holes that do not admit of a free discharge of the 

 Seed through them, whereas a small quantity (sufficient at all times 

 to cover the bottom of the barrel) is, in a manner sifted through them 

 by the revolution of the Barrel. .-] 



I sowed with the barrel to day, in drills, about 3 ^jpints of a 

 white well looking Oat, brought from Carolina last yearj\by G. A. 

 Washington in 7 rows running from the path leading from the Overseer's 

 Ho. to the Quarter to the West fence of the field, which the ground 

 was in the best order. Afterwards I sowed in such other parts of the 

 adjoining ground as could at any rate be worked the common Oat of 

 the Eastern shore (after picking out the Wild onion); but in truth 

 nothing but the late Season could warrant sowing in ground so v/et. 



None of the ground in wch. these Oats v/ere sown had received any 

 improvement from Manure, but all of it had been twice plowed, and then 

 listed, after which the harrow had gone over it twice before the seed 

 harrowing. This, had it not been for the frequent rains, etca., which 

 has fallen would have put the ground in fine order. 



Transplanted as many of the large Magnolio into the Grove at the 

 No. end of the Ho. as made the number there. 



Also transplanted from the same box, 9 of the live Oak, viz. 4 

 in the bends of the lawn before the House, and five on the East of 

 the grove (within the yard) at the No. end of the House. 



Plowed up my last years turnip patch (at home) to sow Orchard 

 grass seeds in. 



No fish caught to day. . . . 



Monday , IGth. Began my brick work to day, first taking avmy the 

 foundations of the Garden Houses as they were first placed, and re- 

 pairing the damages in the Walls occasioned by their removal; and also 

 began to put up my pallisades (on the Wall). 



Compleated Sowing with 20 quarts the ^drilled Oats in the ground 

 intended for experiments at Muddy hole;:.' which amounted to 38 rows, 

 ten feet apart (including the parts of rows sowed on Saturday last). 

 In the afternoon I began to sow Barley, but finding there were too 

 many Seeds discharged from the Barrel, notwithstanding I stopped every 

 other hole, I discontinued the sowing until another Barrel with smaller 



