in Loudoun County Virginia
John Binns: Experimental Farmer
I planted this year, after laying the plantation off into three fields, about fifty acres of corn. This corn was planted about fifteen hundred hills to the acre. …produced between seven to eight bushels to the acre.
Treatise on Practical Farming, by John Binns, 1804
History
1803 Louisiana purchase from France doubles the size of the United States
Economy 1810
United States
Total Population: 5,308,483
Virginia
Total Population: 877,683
Loudoun
Total Population: 21,338 |
Science
Secretary of Treasury instructed consuls to collect seeds, plants, and agricultural inventions.
Crop rotation becomes a regular practice. The understanding of fungus and bacteria in soil and its relationship to increase crop yields is still unknown.
George Wenner | Silvey Mason | John Binns
Philip Nelson | Catherine Manning |
George Bodmer
Westmoreland Davis |
R. N. Legard
Elevation | Nichols
