Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, page 93

Other grasses.

ashes, while they are a fine manure for clover, destroy broomstraw, & are said to be the only thing which will do it. A. Stuart from I. Rose.

a milch cow (which would fatten to 700.) will require for the summer’s food 1¾as of grass which would mow to 3375 hay to the acre, or say ground which would yield 3. ton of hay. 4. Ex. A. 362

Hay.

in a stack of hay a year & a half old, a cubic yard weighs 11. Dutchstone = 176. Kaim 170.

Manuscript (Massachusetts Historical Society, Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, page 93). Scan available online here.

Source Information

Author Thomas Jefferson
Date 1772-1826
Place of Origin Monticello
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