The Agricidiral Papers of George Washington 



for seed, to sup]y my own wants, and the market, so fai 

 it can be spared This field, after the rye has been eaten 

 by the sheep, is o be kept from the stock of all kinds, 

 nothing sufferettto run thereon, until it comes, in course 

 be cultivated, in he regular routine of crops. 



No. 2. Wilbe in corn, and, although but an indiffei 

 field, washed income places, gullied in others, and ricl 

 none, is, all thiijs considered, best to be appropriated &amp;lt; 

 stantly for thi crop. First, and specially, because i 

 most contiguous o the barn, and the corn therein more ea 

 secured and atmded to. Secondly, because it is as ha 

 to the mud froi the pocoson and the bed of the creek as 

 other, to mix in compost, and more convenient to the mar 

 from the farm-ird and stables. Thirdly, because it is 

 tirely out of tl reach of squirrels. And, fourthly, beet 

 it is hoped and *pected, from the manner of treating it, 1 

 it will be so muh amended as to become more and more ] 

 ductive every ear, and the impoverished places, if not 

 stored to som degree of fertility, prevented from get 

 worse, and booming such eye-sores as they now are. 



The corn wi be planted in rows, six feet by four, or s( 

 by three and a alf ; the wide part open to the south. It n 

 be as highly i;inured in the hill as the means on the f 

 (respect bein. had to other species of crops) will ad 

 The rows of te succeeding year will be in the middle of 

 last, and alterately shifted; by which means, and the w&amp;lt; 

 ings the field ill yearly receive, the whole will be enric 

 and, it is hopi, restored. 



No. 3. A No. 2 is to be appropriated as a standing 

 for corn, am of course cannot be sown with wheat in 

 autumn of 180, this field, that is, No. 3, ought, if it be p 

 ticable, to be allowed, and sown with that article; other 

 the farm willproduce no wheat the following year, and 



