1Farm Reports, 16–22 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
...well to give a small quantity of it one more trial—the above wheat has been sown under the most favorable circumstances—the ground in a fine moist state and well pulvarised by a good plowg—and harrowing—The Buck wheat if possessed of the properties of manure must in this field discover its powers having been turnd in early and in a very succulent state much of it sprung up and was turned in...
2To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 8–9 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
...time, not untill we begin Planting Corn when it will be a great interuption to the Plows as it will require 28 plows 3 days to put in the seed or rather to plow the ground as it will be harrow’d in. Mr Whiting prefers replanting when it is too late to replant with Common Corn to use the early Corn, in preference to potatoes as they do not come of[f] soon enough for sowing wheat, when...