If Ewes & Lambs are restraind from Wheat Fields, & no green food sowd to support them in the Spring—contrive that no more fall after this year till the last of March.
“Memms., March 1768,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0003-0009-0013. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 51.]