The Agricultural Papers of George Washington 



icate the wild growth. When this is effected, lay it to grass. 

 As the fields come round, the unreclaimed inlets may be pre 

 pared for grass, if circumstances and the force of the farm 

 will admit of it. Of these there is one, besides a swamp in 

 No. 3, which is susceptible of being converted into good grass 

 ground ; and the flat and low ground in No. 4, it is presumed, 

 would bring grass also. Whether the part proposed to be 

 added to field No. 5 had better be retained for arable uses, or 

 laid to meadow, can be determined better after it is cleared, 

 and cleaned of the wild growth, than now. But the inlets at 

 the Ferry, between the dwelling and fish houses, might, by a 

 small change of the fence from the gate of No. 1, be thrown 

 into that field and brought into excellent meadow at very 

 little expense, whensoever time and labor can be afforded for 

 this purpose. To dwell on the advantages of meadow would 

 be a mere waste of time, as the produce is always in demand 

 in the market and for my purposes, and obtained at no other 

 expense, than that of cutting the grass and making it into 

 hay. 



Crops, 4-c., for 1801 



No. 2. Being the field appropriated for corn, will be 

 planted with this article accordingly, as already directed for 

 1800; the poor and washed parts continuing to receive all 

 the aid that can be given to them. 



No. 3. Supposing it to have been fallowed and sown the 

 year before, will this year produce a crop of wheat, the stub 

 ble of which, immediately after harvest, is to be turned in, and 

 be sown with rye for the benefit of sheep in the day, during 

 winter and spring, but which are to be housed at night. All 

 the low and rich spots, capable of producing grass, must be 

 sown with timothy or orchard-grass seeds, for the purpose of 

 supplying seeds again; and a part of the field may be re- 



