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cart may be employed in hauling it to the ground. 



Another piece of work to be done here, as I propose to 

 make a small quantity of tobacco at this, as well as at my 

 other plantations, is, to hill the ground that is marked off 

 for it, in time. But, previous to hilling, it must be laid off 

 with the plough into three-feet squares, that the hills may be 

 made directly on the cross ; so that, in the early stages of 

 the growth of the tobacco, it may be tended with a plough 

 each way. 



If these several kinds of work should not afford sufficient 

 employment for the hoe people, with the cultivation of the 

 ground, which will be marked out for potatoes and carrots, 

 and which ought to be ploughed up immediately, they may be 

 preparing field No. 6, on the creek, for corn in 1790. In 

 the execution of this work, the cedar trees are not to be cut 

 down, but trimmed only ; and other trees left here and there 

 for shades. The brush and rubbish, of all sorts, are to be 

 thrown into the gullies and covered over, so as to admit the 

 ploughs to pass. 



Both parts of field No. 1 should from this time be with 

 held from stock of all kinds, that there may be, in the spring, 

 early food for the ewes, lambs, and calves. Field No. 3, now 

 in wheat and rye, must be sown with clover and timothy on 

 the first snow that falls, six pints of the first, and two of 

 the latter per acre. 



Dogue-Run Farm 



The ploughs belonging to this plantation, when they have 

 performed what has already been directed for them at Muddy 

 Hole, together with those of the latter, are to begin, if the 

 ground will admit of it, to break up No. 6 for buckwheat, to 

 be sown in April. But if this, on account of the levelness 

 of the field and the water which may stand on it, cannot 



