Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, page 64

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Communication: TJs_FarmBook
SOURCE INFORMATION
Author Thomas Jefferson
Document Type Communication: TJs_FarmBook
Date 1772-1826
Place of Origin Monticello
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TRANSCRIPTION

Hoes.

clean the locks of fences of every thing but the good grasses.

a laborer will weed 500. corn hills a day flush.

2. laborers will follow one plough & weed the intervals between the hills.

a laborer will grub from half an acre to an acre a week of common bushy land in winter

2. hands grubbed the grave yard 80. f. sq. = 1/7 acre in 3½ hours.

1. do will grub 1¼ acre a week in summer, of the worst woodlands. inclosed lands in thicket are worse.

the price of grubbing is 24/ pr acre in Augusta, & cutting down & cutting up the large timber ready for burning is 16/

Axes.

Manuscript (Massachusetts Historical Society, Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, page 64). Scan available online here.