50 The Agricultural Papers of George Washington 



be rendering me an essential service; and, as the work might 

 be returned in proper season, would be no detriment to your 

 building. 



When the brick work is executed at the Ferry Barn, Gun 

 ner and Davis must repair to Dogue Run, and make bricks 

 there ; at the place and in the manner, which have been di 

 rected, that I may have no salmon bricks in that building. 



Oyster shells should be bought, whenever they are offered 

 for sale, if good and on reasonable terms. 



Such money as you may receive for flour, barley, fish, as 

 also for other things, which can be spared and sold ; and for 

 rents, the use of the jacks, &c. ; and for book debts, which 

 may be tried, though little is expected from the justice of 

 those who have been long indulged ; may be applied to the 

 payment of workmen s wages as they arise, Fairfax, and the 

 taxes, and likewise to the payment of any just debts, which 

 I may be owing in small sums, and have not been able to 

 discharge previous to my leaving the State. The residue may 

 await further orders. 



As I shall want shingles, plank, nails, rum for harvest, 

 scantling, and such like things, which would cost me money 

 at another time, fish may be bartered for them. The scant 

 ling, if any is taken, must be such as will suit for the barn 

 now about to be built, or that at Dogue Run, without waste 

 and of good quality. 



I find it is indispensably necessary, for two reasons, to 

 save my own clover and timothy seed ; first, because it is the 

 only certain means of having it good and in due season ; 

 and, secondly, because I find it is a heavy article to purchase. 



Save all the honey-locusts you can, of those which belong 

 to me ; if more could be obtained, the better. And, in the 

 fall, plant them on the ditches where they are to remain, 

 about six inches apart, one seed from another. 



