 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 pages
...grasses, and connecting cattle with their crops. The Indian corn is the chief support of the laborers and horses. Our lands, as I mentioned in my first...but use and abuse have made them quite otherwise. Y* The above is the mode of cultivation which has been generally pursued here ; but the system of husbandry,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 pages
...not urine it up. Washington, in a letter to Arthur Young, in 1787, says: " Our lands, as I mentioned to you. were originally very good ; but use and abuse have made them quit« otherwise.11 James Madison tells us, in 1819, that much of the rich soil of Virginia had been... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 pages
...grasses, and connecting cattle with their crops. The Indian corn is the chief support of the laborers and horses. Our lands, as I mentioned in my first...but use and abuse have made them quite otherwise. Y* The above is the mode of cultivation which has been generally pursued here ; but the system of husbandry,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 406 pages
...grasses, and connecting cattle with their crops. The Indian corn is the chief support of the laborers and horses. Our lands, as I mentioned in my first...'Annals, 'is now gaining ground. There are several, among whom I may class myself, who are endeavoring to get into your regular and systematic course of cropping,... | |
 | Henry Chase - 1856 - 150 pages
...slavery has made. Says Washington (letter to Arthur Young, Nov. 1, 1787), " Our lands, as I mentioned to you, were originally very good, but use and abuse have made them quite otherwise." Says Olmsted (Seaboard Slave States, pages 63 and 65), speaking of the lands, stock, and vehicles of... | |
 | Henry Chase - 1856 - 148 pages
...slavery has made. Says Washington (letter to Arthur Young, Nov. 1, 1787), " Our lands, as I mentioned to you, were originally very good, but use and abuse have made them quite otherwise." Says Olmsted (Seaboard Slave States, pages 63 and 65), speaking of the lands, stock, and vehicles of... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1904 - 628 pages
...cattle with their crops. The Indian corn is the chief support of the laborers and horses. Our lands, as mentioned in my first letter to you, were originally...but use and abuse have made them quite otherwise." 1 Mitchell also bears witness to the degeneration of lands in the Southern colonies as early as 1767.... | |
 | Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Charles Manfred Thompson - 1916 - 904 pages
...in the same manner.) No more cattle is raised than can be supported by lowland me"adows, swamps, &c, and the tops and blades of Indian corn; as very few...promoted by your valuable annals, is now gaining ground. _Jhere are several (among which I may class myself), who are endeavoring to get into your regular and... | |
 | Paul Wilstach - 1916 - 426 pages
...with their crops. The Indian corn is the chief support of the laborers and horses. Our lands, . . . were originally very good; but use, and abuse, have made them quite otherwise." drew up for his manager this rotation table, covering six years, as best for Mount Vernon farms: "1st.... | |
 | Paul Merrick Hollister - 1921 - 202 pages
...sufficient food for his people and stock, and the utmost yield of negotiable grains. "Our lands," he wrote, "were originally very good; but use and abuse have made them quite otherwise" — and so he sent abroad for new seeds to try out. Selected quantities of his grains he set aside... | |
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... is ruined in the same manner.) No more cattle is raised than can be supported by lowland me"adows, swamps, &c, and the tops and blades of Indian corn; as very few persons have attended to sowing grasses, and connecting cattle with their crops. The... 
