Show I Thomas Jefferson Was Americas America's s First Scientific Farmer Jeffersons Jefferson's ideas with reference to agriculture were far in advance of his day declared James E. E Ward head of the division of social sciences sciences sciences at Clemson college in a talk on Monticello An Experimental Farm at the meeting of the committee committee committee com com- at Monticello He was among among the first to practice crop rotation He was a n scientific farmer and in arranging for his system of rotation he divided his cultivated lands into I four farms of acres acre each and each farm into seven fields of 40 acres The boundaries were marked by rows of peach trees The seven fields indicated that his system of rotation of crops embraced seven years He reduced corn to one year in seven and tobacco seems to have been eliminated entirely He al always always always al- al ways stressed the maxim that where the soil is left bare the sun absorbs the nutritious juices of the earth Consequently in his rotation system he did not nate any any land to be fallow but rather cultivated certain plants especially especially es es- es legumes because he he accepted ac ac- accepted accepted the ide idea that such plants would absorb fertility from the atmosphere atmosphere at at- and store and store it in the so soil l. l Another observation can be verified by a study of this rotation system The crops planted on the various fields provided a continuity of employment employment em em- for both the labor force and the work stock and thereby avoid avoided d excessive peak demands |