Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of Grain Needs, [ca. 1 October 1819]

Estimate of Grain Needs

[ca. 1 Oct. 1819]

Estimate of grain from Oct. 1. 19—to
July 7. 20    40 weeks
Resources
Bar.
Oct. 1. corn on hand in the mill 80
from Th:J.R. 200
weeks
mill @ 2. Bar. a week 40. 80
lb B
offal of 350. B. flour. @ 25 35.
do to be bought at mill 65 100
460
340. b to be bought elsewhere 68
528
Bar.
90. persons from Oct. 1. to July 7. 20.—40. weeks @ 4½ B. a week, 180
70. hogs to be fattened @ 1½ Bar. apiece 105
9. breeding s[o]ws1 @ 1. pint a day from Dec. 1. to Mar. 10. 100.  day 3
60. shoats @ ½ pint a day 100. 9 ½
pigs 5 .
6. beeves @ 2. gals a day from Dec. 1. to Mar. 1. [killing off] say 90.  days 27 .
stable @ 14. gals a day Oct. 1. to July 1. [deducting 2. mo.] 210.  days 73 ½
1. plantation horse & 6. mules @ 1½ bush. a day. Oct. 1. to July 1. 270.  d 81
sheep suppose 80. @ ½ pint from Dec. 1. to Mar. 15. 90.  d 11
4. oxen @ 6. galls a day Dec. 1. to May 15. 165.  d 25
1. milch cow at the stable @ 1 peck a day 165.  d 8
the other cattle to be fed on stalks, tops, shucks, chaff, straw Etc. 528  

MS (lithographic facsimile in Pierson, Jefferson at Monticello, opp. p. 80); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; brackets in original.

TJ similarly estimated consumption and resources in his Farm Book in 1794, 1812, 1815, January 1819, and 1821 (Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1, pp. 44, 138, 147, 163, 171).

th:j.r.: Thomas Jefferson Randolph.

1. Word faint.

Index Entries

  • cattle; and milk search
  • cattle; fodder for search
  • corn; stalks search
  • corn; supply of search
  • corn; tops, blades, and shucks search
  • flour; milling of search
  • flour; TJ purchases search
  • horses; fodder for search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Estimate of Grain Needs search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); grain for search
  • mules; fodder for search
  • oxen; fodder for search
  • pigs; fodder for search
  • Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); crops of search
  • sheep; fodder for search
  • slaves; food for search

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Title
Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of Grain Needs, [ca. 1 October 1819]
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
October 1819 – July 1820

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of Grain Needs, [ca. 1 October 1819],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0061. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 70–71.]