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First Edition. 8vo. 22 leaves.
Sabin 41790, note.
Evans 32382.
On July 28, 1793, Jefferson, living in Philadelphia, wrote to Thomas Mann Randolph: “ . . . I am availing myself of the time I have to remain here, to satisfy myself by enquiring from the best farmers of all the circumstances which may decide on the best rotation of crops; for I take that to be the most important of all the questions a farmer has to decide. I get more information on this subject from D r. Logan than from all the others put together. he is the best farmer in Pensylvã. both in theory & practice, having pursued it many years experimentally & with great attention. ”
The major portion of this letter is concerned with Dr. Logan’s agricultural experiments, and Jefferson’s comments on them.
On July 1 of the same year Jefferson had written to Logan himself: “ Th: Jefferson presents his friendly compliments to D r. Logan. having engaged a good farmer to go and put one of his plantations in Virginia into a regular course of farming, & being about to give him his plan, he takes the liberty of submitting it to D r. Logan, in whose experience & judgment he has great confidence. he begs him to favor him with his observations on it, freely & as fully in writing as his leisure will permit. he is himself but a tyro in agriculture, and it being of great importance to set out right in plans de longe haleine, he hopes it will be his excuse with D r Logan for the trouble he gives him . . . ”
George Logan, 1753-1821, physician and United States Senator, was a native of Germantown, and a strict Quaker. He was a personal friend of Jefferson who often visited him.
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J.26
Agricultural pamphlets. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 48, as above.
Sixteen pamphlets rebound together in buckram by the Library of Congress, 1 vol. 8vo.
S405 .A27
i. AMBLER, Jacquelin.
A Treatise on the culture of Lucerne, By Jacqulin ( sic ) Ambler. Richmond: Printed by T. Nicolson [ 1800?].
12mo. 5 leaves without signature, each leaf mounted on a stub. On page 7 begins Observations on Mr. Ambler’s notes on the culture of Lucerne, signed R. Parker.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Virginia State Library, A Bibliography of Virginia.
Jacquelin Ambler, 1742-1798, a native of Yorktown, Virginia, of which state he became Treasurer. He married Rebecca Burwell, and became the father-in-law of John Marshall, see no. 496.
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ii. BORDLEY, John Beale.
Country Habitations. [ Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, 1798.]
8vo. 7 leaves without signature, numbered (1)-13; engraved frontispiece; caption title; numerous corrections in the text, probably by the author, who has signed his initial at the end in ink and the date, July, 1798.
Not in Sabin.
Evans 33435.
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iii. [STONE, Thomas.]
A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Somerville . . . late President of the Board of Agriculture, with a view to shew the Inutility of the plans and Researches of that Institution . . . By a Society of Practical Farmers. London: Printed and Published by George Cawthorn [and others], 1800. [Price three shillings.]
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