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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 
