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ploughs must go there next, and do all that is necessary for 

 getting it planted in time, and in good order. 



But, as I do not mean to plant potatoes or carrots anting 

 corn this year, as was the case last year, inclining to allot 

 separate spots for this purpose, these spots, and that which 

 is intended for tobacco, ought to be immediately ploughed ; 

 that the weeds and grass, where there are any, may have 

 time to rot, and the ground to be in order to receive manure. 

 The spot, which I would principally appropriate for carrots 

 and potatoes, is that whereon the flax grew last year, but if 

 more can be conveniently obtained elsewhere, it ought to be 

 had, as that spot is insufficient. The ground for tobacco 

 (forty thousand plants) I mean to lay off in a long square, 

 from the farm-pen up to field No. 2, which, when ploughed 

 and checkered, will be ready to receive manure at times when 

 the carts can with convenience carry it out. 



All the ploughings, which are enumerated, being accom 

 plished, the season probably will have arrived when No. 8 

 will require to be cross-ploughed, and sowed with buckwheat 

 or manure, in April. This is, in all respects, to be man 

 aged as has been directed for Dogue Run, and after harvest 

 is to receive wheat, in August, as there mentioned. 



These, with the necessary workings of the several species 

 of crops, which must not be neglected, will, it is presumed, 

 give sufficient employment for the ploughs. If not, there 

 can be no difficulty in finding work for them. 



Much fencing is wanting on this plantation, before it can 

 be in the order I wish to see it ; but, among the most essential 

 of these, is the fence which is to enclose field No. 1 for corn ; 

 that which runs from the second gate, going into the planta 

 tion, to the creek, dividing my land from Colonel Mason s; 

 and that which is to form the lane, which is to lead from the 

 barn into the lane which now goes to Johnson s, and which 



