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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... , I saw fifty acres that had from twelve to fifteen bushels per acre . I have been told of from twenty to thirty , nay as high as a hundred : but I never saw any such . I rode some miles to look at one of the Ame- Y 2 323.
... , I saw fifty acres that had from twelve to fifteen bushels per acre . I have been told of from twenty to thirty , nay as high as a hundred : but I never saw any such . I rode some miles to look at one of the Ame- Y 2 323.
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... hundred - bushel crops , mentioned to me by what in America is termed a man of veracity . I did not expect it to be a hun- dred bushels : but I did expect it to be some- thing extraordinary . The ears , the gentle- man told me , were ...
... hundred - bushel crops , mentioned to me by what in America is termed a man of veracity . I did not expect it to be a hun- dred bushels : but I did expect it to be some- thing extraordinary . The ears , the gentle- man told me , were ...
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... hundred bushels are reckoned a very great crop . Indeed the produce of potatoes very much depends on the richness of soil , in all parts of the world , and the quality and quantity of dung used . There are many sorts of potatoes in use ...
... hundred bushels are reckoned a very great crop . Indeed the produce of potatoes very much depends on the richness of soil , in all parts of the world , and the quality and quantity of dung used . There are many sorts of potatoes in use ...
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... hundred or one hundred and fifty bushels per acre . Americans will tell you the produce is one thousand bushels per acre , and that they sell for one dollar per bushel . So they do for one or two market - days ; and sometimes at one ...
... hundred or one hundred and fifty bushels per acre . Americans will tell you the produce is one thousand bushels per acre , and that they sell for one dollar per bushel . So they do for one or two market - days ; and sometimes at one ...
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... hundred pounds . He then shewed me some fat weathers he had got , and kept like race - horses , as to fattening , with clover and timothy hay , Indian corn , blades and tops , and oats , some potatoes , turnips , & c . He had his sheep ...
... hundred pounds . He then shewed me some fat weathers he had got , and kept like race - horses , as to fattening , with clover and timothy hay , Indian corn , blades and tops , and oats , some potatoes , turnips , & c . He had his sheep ...
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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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