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must continue the other way, so as to open a communication 

 with the fields No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4. As timber is 

 very scarce on this tract, it must in fencing, as well as in 

 other things, be made to go as far as possible ; consequently, 

 posts and rails, of a good and substantial kind, must be 

 substituted instead of the usual kind of worm fences. 



To point out all the work for the hoe people of this plan 

 tation is unnecessary. To finish the old, and to prepare for 

 the new crop ; to put up fences ; to heap up the manure early, 

 that it may get well and soon rotted; to carry it out, and 

 to lay it in the furrows intended for carrots and potatoes, 

 and on the ground intended for tobacco ; making hills for 

 the tobacco ; grubbing and filling gullies in the fields, which 

 are to receive crops this year, with old rails, old stumps, 

 old trees, and such other rubbish as can be had conveniently ; 

 levelling the bank, on which a fence formerly ran through 

 field No. 8 ; will, with the cultivation of the crops that will 

 be planted and sown, and gathering them in, compose the 

 greater part, if not all, of their labor. But if there should, 

 notwithstanding, be time for other things, I know of nothing 

 in which they could be more advantageously employed, than 

 in getting up rich mud from the branches in field No. 8, to 

 spread over the poor and washed parts of that field, before 

 it is sown in wheat next August. 



Mansion&amp;lt;-House Farm 



The ditchers, after the post-and-rail fence, which they are 

 now about, to the Tumbling Dam is completed, and a strong 

 one put across the Mill Run, as will be marked off, may con 

 tinue on to the Mill by the line of stakes, which will be set 

 up; but they are not to use for this purpose those posts ; 

 which were got by Marley s house, as they will be more 

 convenient for the lane, which is to form the new road from 



