1April 1790 (Washington Papers)
...a stick. Two or three workings afterwards with the Harrows or Plough is all the cultivation it...
2[Diary entry: 24 April 1790] (Washington Papers)
...a stick. Two or three workings afterwards with the Harrows or Plough is all the cultivation it...
3From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 10 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
...are learning French & the Mathematics under a Mr Harrow. George, & indeed Lawrence, I am told...
4From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
...provided, for making new, and repairing old Harrows—Ploughs—Cradles—Rakes & such like things:...
5From George Washington to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 26 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
...indigo seed it will not be wanted. The harrow will be proportioned to the plough or ploughs...
6From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 14 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
...) with safety; and then, with the heavy Oxe Harrow to level the ground before it is sown with...
7From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 23 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
...friends, that internal dissentions should be harrowing & tearing our vitals. The last...
8To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 23 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
should be harrowing and tearing our vitals. The last, to me,...
9To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 26 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
...deliberate acts of a determined party) should be harrowing our vitals in such a manner as to...
10From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 26 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
...deliberate Acts of a determined party) should be harrowing our vitals in such a manner as to...
11From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
...without plowing or breaking the ground more than a harrow would do, lay it down in grass—And...
12From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 4 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
...covered at all) may be very slightly covered—Harrowing Clover Seed in, in the vicinity of...
13From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 9 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
...have, I shall leave to yourself; but request, if harrowed at all, it may be done with nothing
14Enclosure: Crop Rotations for Mount Vernon Farms, 1793 (Washington Papers)
...Harrowing 9... ...36 36 Levellg with Harrow for seeding... ...Harrowing before sowg to level the...
15Rotations of Crops for Dogue Run, 1793 (Washington Papers)
...Spring. Note, No mention is made of Harrowing in any of the foregoing Rotations; because,...
16Circular to William Stuart, Hiland Crow, and Henry McCoy, 14 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
...& then to tear them to peices with heavy harrows. Whether it be necessary to cut down &...harrows
17From George Washington to Howell Lewis, 4 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
...well prepared and laid level, the lightest Bush harrow is sufficient to pass over it after...
18From George Washington to Howell Lewis, 11 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
...objects cannot be accomplished by means of the Plow & Harrow it must be done by the Hoe & Rollers
19From George Washington to Howell Lewis, 25 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
for harrowing the ground after the wheat is sown will be injurious... ...no more harrows follow...
20Notes on Spurrier’s Rotation of Crops, January 1794 (Washington Papers)
...as the weather will permit, give it a good harrowing; in May obliquely plow it; the latter end...
21From George Washington to William Pearce, 19 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
...the boy Joe, constantly employed about the Carts, Plows, Harrows &ca until they are in order....
22From George Washington to William Pearce, 9 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
...pounds to sprinkle over the ground. Running a harrow over the lot backwards & forwards, &...
23From George Washington to William Pearce, 23 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
...ought to be well torn with a sharp toothed harrow, in order to prepare it for the Seed,...
24From George Washington to William Pearce, 6 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
...never would be a want of draught
Cattle for Cart, Harrow or Roller.
25From George Washington to William Pearce, 13 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
...abundantly with good seed, & scratched in with Harrows, or rakes with Iron teeth. It is...
26From George Washington to William Pearce, 23 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
...Carts of different sorts, Wheels, Plows, Harrows Rakes Wheelbarrows, and all kinds of farming...
27From George Washington to William Pearce, 25 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
...in; particular in Carts, wheels, Plows, Harrows, wheel barrows, and such kinds of impliments...
28From George Washington to William Pearce, 15 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
...and weeds I wish you would put a heavy harrow with sharp teeth thereon, and tare the ground...
29From George Washington to William Pearce, 1 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
...wish that it may be extremely well plowed, harrowed and prepar’d for Lucern & clover seed...
30From George Washington to William Pearce, 29 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
...that are too thin, be resown, and a light harrow, or roller, run over, to bury the seed....
31From George Washington to William Pearce, 9 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
...sow, as fast as you plow; to be well harrowed, but not so as to bring the grass up...
32From George Washington to William Pearce, 23 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
...only is intended, and the Wheat is to be harrowed in. Let this be the case with the...
33From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 4 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
...thereon immediately, as on a clover lay; harrowing in the Seed lightly, to avoid disturbing...
34To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 4 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...thereon immediately, as on a clover lay; harrowing in the seed lightly, to avoid disturbing...
35From George Washington to William Pearce, 29 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
...Locust Posts for the circle before the door; Harrows, Ploughs, rakes[,] Wheels, Carts,...
36Advertisement, 1 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
...stones or stumps to impede the plough or harrow. They are distant from Alexandria about eight,...
37Lease Terms, 1 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
...be), that will not impede the plough, hoe or harrow in the cultivation of the Corn.
38From George Washington to John Sinclair, 12 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
...latter, part of it was ploughed in; part harrowed in; part scratched in with a light bush;...
39From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
and the Wheat to be sown, and harrowed in at the tail of the Plough. It was...
40To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 6 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
...Bar-share; and the Wheat to be sown, and harrowed in at the tail of the Plough. It was...
41Memorandum for James Anderson and William Pearce, 5 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
...latter can be ascertained)—together with the Carts, Plows, Harrows, Axes, Hoes Mattocks &
42From George Washington to James Anderson, 5 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
Grain harrowed in, certainly looks better in Autumn, than that which...