Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, page 163

Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, page 163

		Estimate of corn from Jan. 1. 1819.				Bar

	for	90 persons from Jan. 1. to Nov. 1. 44. weeks @ 4½ Barrels a week				200.
		9. breeding sows to May 1. 120. days @ 1. pint a day each		28½	⎧ ⎨ ⎩	3½
		62. shoats to July 10. 191. days @ ½ pint a day				18½
		26. pigs from weaning to July 10. suppose 160. days @ ½ pint a day				6½
		2. beeves		231½		3
oats may do for these in part.	⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩	for the Stable to July 1. (deducting 1. month absence) 150. days @ 14 galls a day				52½
		for the plantation horse & 6. mules to July 1. 180. days @ 1½ bush a day				54.
		for 63. sheep to Mar. 15. 75. days @ ½ pint a day				7½
		for 4. oxen to May 15. 135. days @ 6. galls a day		134.		20
						365½

		corn on hand.	65.
		expected from the mill in 44. weeks @ 2.B. a week	88			153
		to be bought				212½
		3. milch cows to be fed with bran, shipstuff Etc.
		the other cattle on stalks, tops, shucks, chaff, straw Etc.

1819.	Oct 1. to [. . .] Jul. 7. 1820. Estimate in corn, but it’s equivalt in offal to be used in all possible cases.		Bar.
	90. persons from Oct. 1. 19. to M July 7. 20 [. . .] 40 weeks @ 4½B. a week		[. . .] 180
	fattening hogs 50 70. @ 1½B. each		[. . .] 105	.
	9. breeding sows @ 1. pint a day each from Dec. 1. to Mar. 10. 100.d.		3
	60. [. . .] shoats @ ½ p. a day 100. d		[. . .] 9	½
	pigs		[. . .] 5	[. . .]
	6. beeves @ 2.g. a day Dec. 1. to Mar. 1. [killing off 1. a fortnight] say 60. 2. on the whole		[. . .] 27
	stable @ 14.g. a day. Oct. 1. to July 1. [—2. mo. Bedfd] say 7. mo.		73	½
	1. plantn horse & 6. mules Oct. 1. to July 1. @ 1½. b. 270.d		81	.
	sheep. suppose 80. @ ½ pint each from Dec. 15. to Mar. 15. 90d.		11
	4 oxen. @ 6.g. a day. Dec. 1. to May 15. 165. d.		25
	1. milch cow at the stable @ 1. peck a day 165.d.		8
	the other cattle to live on stalks, tops, shucks, chaff, straw Etc.		[. . .] 528

		B.
Resources.	corn on hand	80.	⎫ ⎬ ⎭
	from Th:J. R.	[. . .] 200
	mill @ 2.B. a week [. . .] 40 weeks	[. . .] 80		[. . .] 360		[. . .] 360
*	offal of 350.B. flour @ 25. ℔ per B. 8750 ℔			35	}	[. . .] 100
	do to be bot & [at the] mill. suppose			[. . .] 65	}	[. . .] 100
						[. . .] 460
	corn or wheat to be bought or wheat					[. . .] 68	= 340.b.
						[. . .] 528

for every barrel of flour is allowed
2.b. bran. ½b. shipstuff.

Manuscript (Massachusetts Historical Society, Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, page 161; renumbered to page 163 for DASFAM). Scan available online here.

Source Information

Author	Thomas Jefferson
Date	1819
Place of Origin	Monticello

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