by Thomas Jefferson
green Lucerne, when dried, loses 3/4 of it's weight. 2 Dickson. 230.
a cow eats of mown lucerne about 66. lb per day. of
st foin form 64. lb. neither gives any taste to the
milk,
nor will clover if the cows be not confined to it. 4 Young's exp. agr,
362-367.
Nov. 1796. less than an acre of pumpkins
have fed 9 horses at
Shadwell 5. weeks, as
well as a gallon & a half of corn a day
would have done. equal then to 35. days x
9. horses, x 1 1/2 galn. of corn = 12 barrels of corn. besides this a great
proportion of the
pumpkins had rotted. an acre of pumpkins then is equivalent to 5. acres
of corn.
to feed all the work horses, oxen, milch cows from
Sep. 1. to
Dec. 31.
& to fatten the hogs
8. acres of pumpkins should be planted on each side of the river, by
themselves.