A Tour in America in 1798,1799, and 1800: Exhibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a Particular Account of the America System of Agriculture, with Its Recent Improvements, Volume 2J. Harding, 1805 - Agriculture "The author came to America to rent one of the farms of Gen. Washington, respecting whom the book abounds in curious details."--Sabin. |
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... feet asunder , setting two furrows back to back ; -then they do the like the other way , which forms a sort of hill where these fur- rows cross each other : they then go with a large hoe , such as that its weight will break the clods ...
... feet asunder , setting two furrows back to back ; -then they do the like the other way , which forms a sort of hill where these fur- rows cross each other : they then go with a large hoe , such as that its weight will break the clods ...
Page 329
... feet from the ground . I have had from five to seven ears put out silk ; but they never come to perfection . Good corn will be from twelve to four- teen feet high ; and the white corn is much higher than the yellow but the yellow is by ...
... feet from the ground . I have had from five to seven ears put out silk ; but they never come to perfection . Good corn will be from twelve to four- teen feet high ; and the white corn is much higher than the yellow but the yellow is by ...
Page 333
... feet asunder , but very frequently four . The manure is put into it , and the potatoes cut , when they will bear it , the same as in England , with two eyes each . But it often happens that they set the refuse of the last year's crop ...
... feet asunder , but very frequently four . The manure is put into it , and the potatoes cut , when they will bear it , the same as in England , with two eyes each . But it often happens that they set the refuse of the last year's crop ...
Page 334
... feet soil is drawn to the row on each side . To take them up , some people plough a furrow on each side , and then go with hoes , and turn the potatoes up . ^ The produce is generally about fifty bushels per acre : one hundred bushels ...
... feet soil is drawn to the row on each side . To take them up , some people plough a furrow on each side , and then go with hoes , and turn the potatoes up . ^ The produce is generally about fifty bushels per acre : one hundred bushels ...
Page 360
... feet in England . The Hessian fly is a great calamity ; so much so , that in many parts of the country all ideas of growing wheat have been given up . They are to be seen on the wheat when young , then in embryo in the stubble , be ...
... feet in England . The Hessian fly is a great calamity ; so much so , that in many parts of the country all ideas of growing wheat have been given up . They are to be seen on the wheat when young , then in embryo in the stubble , be ...
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Page 695 - Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Page 697 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 696 - ... of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Page 696 - Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. This, the natural progress and consequence of the arts, has sometimes perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances; but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree...
Page 697 - Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry ; but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe. It is better to carry provisions and materials to workmen there, than bring them to the provisions and materials, and with them their manners and principles.
Page 701 - Pieces. To which are prefixed a biographical Sketch of his Life, and a critical Account of his Writings.
Page 408 - ... night, of a putrid sore throat, an inflammatory complaint frequent in America. I conceive it to be occasioned by a poisonous insect received in with the breath. I am of opinion that the General never knowingly did any thing wrong, but did to all men as he would they should do to him.
Page 697 - While we have land to labour then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.
Page 403 - I think a large number of negroes to require as severe discipline as a company of soldiers :. and that may be one and the great cause why General Washington: managed his negroes better than any other man, he being brought up to the army^ and by nature industrious beyond any description, and in regularity the same.
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