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of August next, after these ploughings are performed. 



Then, as there is no field at this plantation, which can with 

 convenience be appropriated for spring grain, or for the 

 crop of sundries this year, and as the ploughs at Dogue Run, 

 especially if the winter should prove hard and unfavorable, 

 will not be able, of themselves, to break up fields No. 4 and 

 No. 6 at their own plantation, and at the same time prepare 

 those of No. 3 for barley and oats, and No. 7 for Indian 

 corn, in due season, the whole may go to Dogue Run, till the 

 corn at Muddy Hole shall want them, and work in No. 6, if 

 the condition of it is such as to admit thereof; or in No. 4 

 at the same place, if it is not ; for the respective crops which 

 are designed for them. 



The fence on the Ferry road, from the division between 

 the fields No. 4 and No. 5 to the lane on the Mill road, must 

 be repaired with new rails ; but from thence to the gate lead 

 ing to the barn from the overseer s house it should be made 

 tolerably secure with rails, which may be taken from the 

 opposite side. 



As the days are short, walking bad, and the different kinds 

 of stock will require careful attendance, it may perhaps be 

 best to relinquish the idea of the people of this place having 

 any thing further to do with the new ground at the Mansion 

 House ; and when not employed, in open weather, with their 

 fencing, to be threshing out grain. But there is a work of 

 great importance, if the weather and other circumstances 

 would concur for the execution of it in season. I mean, 

 that of getting up rich mud from the most convenient parts 

 of the creek, and laying it in small heaps, for amelioration, 

 to be carried over the poor parts of No. 5, which will be in 

 corn. If this last-mentioned work can be accomplished (and 

 it must be done soon, if any effect is expected from it this 

 year, in order that the frost may have time to operate), the 



