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ling is to be got on the estate, and the place where. Let 

 Thomas Green, while he is in the Neck, repair the overseer s 

 house, as well as it can be done at this season. The scantling 

 that is to be bought, should be got as soon as possible, that 

 the carpenters may be framing it in the winter, or early in 

 the spring. 



Direct the miller to report every week the state of his 

 manufactory of the wheat; as well as the receipts and de 

 livery of the grain into and from the mill, that I may see 

 how he proceeds in that business, and what flour he has on 

 hand, that I may govern my directions accordingly. 



I am very well satisfied with the reasons you assign for 

 opening my letter to Mrs. Fanny Washington. It might, 

 as you observe, have contained a request, which, as she was 

 gone, you might have complied with. 



You have never mentioned in any of your letters what has 

 become of the mare I left at Georgetown, and which was to 

 have been sent to Mount Vernon. I hope she got there safe, 

 and is now well; in that case you may, occasionally, ride 

 her ; keeping her in good order against I may call for her. 



How does your growing wheat look at this time? I hope 

 no appearance of the Hessian fly is among it. On Patuxent, 

 not far from you, I am told it is making such havoc amongst 

 the growing wheat, as to render it necessary to sow over 

 again. I am sorry to find No. 1, at French s, turn out so 

 poor a crop of wheat, and that the fields at Muddy Hole have 

 yielded still worse. How much wheat at that place came off 

 the lot by the overseer s house? 



In ploughing fields No. 3 and No. 4, Dogue Run, let them 

 be so begun as that the rows when planted may run north 

 and south, or as nearly so as the situation of the fields will 

 admit. 



In making your weekly reports, instead of referring to 



