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his grounds, it was in the practical farming operations 

 that Jefferson's real affection centered, and to these 

 that his instructions, which he always left carefully 

 and explicitly written out when he went from home, 

 applied. "A part of the field is to be planted in 

 Quarantine corn," says one memorandum of this na- 

 ture, "which will be found in a tin canister in my 

 closet. This corn is to be in drills 5 feet apart and 

 the stalks 18 inches asunder in the drills. The rest 

 of the ground is to be sown in oats, & red clover 

 sowed on the oats. All ploughing is to be done hor- 

 izontally in the manner Mr. Randolph does his." The 

 Randolph place was adjoining. 



Another, "The fence inclosing the grounds on the 

 top of the mountain must be well done up. . . . 

 No animal of any kind must ever be loose within this 

 inclosure. Davy and Abram may patch up the old 

 garden pales." "Thorn hedges are to be kept clean 

 wed at all times." "The orchard below the garden 

 must be entirely cultivated the next year; to wit, a 

 part in Ravenscroft pea, which you will find in a can- 

 ister in my closet; a part with Irish potatoes and the 

 rest with cow-pea, of which there is a patch at Mr. 

 Freeman's to save which, great attention must be paid, 

 as they are the last in the neighborhood." "Wormley 

 must be directed to weed the flower beds about the 



