1Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 22 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Two friends, who lately accompanied me to this place have proceeded on a tour through the Southern country. the one of these is mr Correa a gentleman from Portugal , of the first order of science, being without exception the most learned man I have ever met with in any country: modest, good-humored, familiar, plain as a country farmer, he becomes the favorite of every one with whom he becomes...
2John Milledge to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your esteemed favor of the 5 th of last month — I was apprehensive that Monticello , and its nieghbourhood would be too cold for the bene, so as to make it a profitable article of cultivation for Market—If you can raise a sufficiency of seed for your own use, it will be, in my opinion, as much as can be done—accept my warmest thanks, for communicating your different essays at...
3Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 5 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Our cultivation of Benni has not yet had entire success. the 1 st year we sowed late & the frost caught it, so that we had scarcely seed the 2 d year to raise seed for the 3 d . we have at length made in the neighborhood two or three bushels. I succeeded in expressing the oil in the iron press you saw at Foxall’s . but the iron giving a brown tinge to the oil, altho transparent & free from...
4John Milledge to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your packet of the 11 th of last month containing Twelve different kinds of rice, for which you have my thanks—I am no rice Planter, but will divide the rice among Planters of that grain, who I know will pay particular attention to its culture, and ascertain whether any or the whole of them, are preferable to the aquatic, which we have in common cultivation—Three parcels contain...
5Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 10 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved from M. Thouin , Director of the National garden of France a collection of many different species of rice. whether any of them possess any properties which might render them preferable to those we possess, either generally, or on under particular circumstances of soil or climate I know not. but the scripture precept of ‘prove all things & hold fast that which is good’ is...