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Washington Papers Consolidated Index | A | Agriculture
From George Augustine Washington, 16 July 1790 [Presidential Series 6:91]
From Daniel Byrnes, 17 January 1793 [Presidential Series 12:18]+
From Richard Peters, 8 February 1793 [Presidential Series 12:117]
– and Alexander Spotswood [2 references]
– and Bank of the U.S. [1 reference]
– and government [2 references]
– and Indians [3 references]
– and labor [8 references]
– and markets [2 references]
– and soil enrichment [1 reference]
– Arthur Young's queries on [11 references]
– at Mount Vernon [5 references]
– barns and outbuildings [4 references]
– Baron von Poellnitz comments on [1 reference]
– blights, diseases, and pests [1 reference + 7 subentries]
– Bloxham hired [1 reference]
– boll weevil and [1 reference]
– by Robert Dick [1 reference]
– correspondence regarding [1 reference]
– cost of labor [2 references]
– crop prospects [1 reference]
– crop rotation [2 references]
– crops [10 references + 77 subentries]
– crops raised by GW [62 subentries]
– defects of Mount Vernon farming [1 reference]
– delays in sowing seed [1 reference]
– ditching [1 reference]
– ditching swampy lands [1 reference]
– drainage [2 references]
– drill plows [3 references]
– economics of [3 references]
– effect of Quasi-War on property values [1 reference]
– employment in [1 reference]
– English equipment [1 reference]
– English plowman sought [1 reference]
– English tools [1 reference]
– English vegetable and grass seed [4 references]
– equipment [6 references + 25 subentries]
– experimental [1 reference]
– experiments [10 references]
– farm machinery [2 references]
– farm work done [3 references]
– fencing [5 references]
– fertilizer and manure [63 references + 7 subentries]
– fields, clearing and preparing [10 references + 6 subentries]
– financial rewards of [1 reference]
– flour inspection [2 references]
– frontier [10 references]
– GW comments on [1 reference]
– GW's discontinuance of tobacco and corn crops [2 references]
– GW's discussion of [1 reference]
– GW's observations on [1 reference]
– GW's plans for Mount Vernon farms [1 reference]
– GW's views on [2 references]
– harrows [4 references]
– harvesting [4 references]
– harvesting practices [4 references]
– hay baler [1 reference]
– implements of [1 reference + 4 subentries]
– improvement of [1 reference]
– Indian [4 references]
– in England [2 references]
– in Europe [1 reference]
– in foreign trade [1 reference]
– in France [2 references]
– in Georgia [1 reference]
– in Germany [1 reference]
– in Great Britain [8 references]
– in Ireland [1 reference]
– in Maryland [2 references]
– in middle states [1 reference]
– in New England [3 references]
– in Pennsylvania [8 references]
– in Pennsylvania and New Jersey [2 references]
– in Russia [2 references]
– in Spain [1 reference]
– instructions for farm managers [3 references]
– in the South [2 references]
– introduced among Indians [2 references]
– in U.S. [4 references]
– inventions for [1 reference]
– in Virginia [4 references]
– labor contracts [1 reference]
– laborers [2 references]
– lambs [5 references]
– land usage [1 reference]
– lapses [1 reference]
– livestock [13 subentries]
– machinery [1 reference + 5 subentries]
– militia deployment impacts [4 references]
– Mount Vernon farm reports [4 references]
– national board for [1 reference]
– observations by GW during travels on Barbados [1 reference + 10 subentries]
– observations on [2 references]
– on Eastern Shore, Md. [1 reference]
– Philadelphia Society for Promoting [1 reference]
– planting [1 reference + 3 subentries]
– planting instructions [2 references]
– plants [5 subentries]
– plowing and plows [16 references]
– price of acreage [6 references]
– price of agricultural products [16 references]
– price of grain [1 reference]
– prices of farm produce [1 reference]
– produce [66 subentries]
– publications on [17 references]
– Richard Peters, Jr., on [3 references]
– role of managers in [1 reference]
– role of overseers [1 reference]
– rollers and rolling [3 references]
– ruined [1 reference]
– scientific practice of [7 references]
– scientific study of [8 references]
– seed [8 references + 53 subentries]
– seed comb [4 references]
– seeding and planting [1 reference]
– sequestered [1 reference]
– slave labor [3 references]
– societies for [14 references]
– sowing techniques [1 reference]
– squirrels [2 references]
– taxes on [1 reference]
– taxes on farms [1 reference]
– tenant farmers [1 reference]
– Thomas Jefferson on [2 references]
– threshing [2 references]
– threshing machines [1 reference]
– tobacco inspection [2 references]
– tobacco warehouses [1 reference]
– tools [3 references]
– trade in products of [4 references]
– trees and horticulture [15 subentries]
– use of buckwheat to enrich soil [1 reference]
– use of labor [3 references]
– use of land [1 reference]
– use of slave labor [2 references]
– use of slaves [3 references]
– value of farmland [2 references]
– vineyards [1 reference]
– viniculture [1 reference]
– weather [14 references + 5 subentries]
– wheat planting [2 references]
See also Slaves [matches multiple entries]