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The diaries covering the years 1766 to 1770, however, reveal the joys and concerns of Washington the successful country squire, said Dr. Jackson.
“The rigorous schedule of sowing and harvesting Mount Vernon’s crops is punctuated by the pleasure of fox-hunting, the theater and family gatherings, and by public duties as vestryman, magistrate and burgess,” lie continued.
The diaries also chronicle one of Washington’s great preoccupations, during his whole career in agriculture, to find the right crops for the soil, climate and practical needs of his Mount Vernon establishment, according to Dr. Jackson.
“The number of crops Washington raised or attempted to raise numbered well over 60 and included barley, clover, corn, carrots, peas, potatoes and wheat,” he said. “At one time he used a seven-year crop rotation, a novel idea when he first became a farmer in the early 1760s.”
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