Show farm arm science cP deay dear to heart of washington art M ceorge CI firse in whose honor our dour national capital vas as tinnier bained vit minted anted more than all else to daok us the leading farmer fanner and agri of it the new world ills hob ba h was scientific farming of all the OKI in tits his extensive extensile library those related to agriculture were adjust KI read our first president cherished the tip sire to spend his days at blount verron Ver where he could experiment willi seeds and plants imported from fi eIgn lie wished to solve the perplexing problems of the vir lr finla planter lie aspired to develop 11 gouni gouni vernon into the finest planta 0 iliin ii ibid and to tok farm in the vt western estern hemisphere hi according to george 11 D I 1 v v v citing in the washington slur elmr imminent eminent american architects vho aho bate made careful studies of the cou con of mount vernons Ver mansion say buy that the house bouse its as completed by Wak hington was vias built to withstand men m it en n to tn eight centuries of service the frome of the home consisted of I 1 1 iiii lit ann mu hite oak timbers which vere joined together with wooden divi dune iel pins instead of spikes the uns sas built to endure as lins as the hie rock of ages some of file ali sandstone walls date back to the days of augustine washington it Is that years from now the ali mansion will still be standing as ii of nf astory and shrine of pal symbolic of masonry ut at home borne oliue or other flici ben you have visited mount vernon n louse linie been impressed by the rue me thod leal arrangement of the barns illuming house kitchens office mee gar d aaers house seed and add feel Ice icehouses houses 1 auses anter sliu laundry lii smoke smokehouse hoesr wid other out buildings be fleites that george washington the 31 idina allison of tits ills lay day designed itsjo aln minyow of tits hla estate buildings to r present cn the outlines of masonic ob illi the modern who aho alios dis plane low over mount ver jc i in rii n may lie able to 1 recognize the lie 1 i i chois scrolled in structures turee of 0 brick anti and wood B even m though mount vernon were wit DI the former home of one of the vim lils greuter generals and one of aai awi most ln loica presidents it donld still merit historical pre preserve serva I 1 in ill 11 lit 1111 iiii ile or of super for ial at and all AD illustration ol of su sali farming fanning G george Wro hing ton drifted devoted many years of anili ima to 10 the hp wo of ills his plantation lie he i tl 11 bixl esely that hait glnn ner arid and designers do not nol err wl n liry lav y I by kome of 0 lilt his uni ion I 1 in hie mih hi abs ax an auit t ittin lists it 11 igini ildy ihly tine of vernon on in hla his country ail ll it fronds on ow one of the field anil honsl lilli lillevig vig speckled with tit the best homes which american architecture can devise and build the simulation of mount blount vernon Is outstanding among the mansions many of which cost double and treble as much it was from his bis half brother lawrence that george washington inherited the 2500 acre homestead which was later a part of spacious mount blount vernon G george eorge subsequently purchased the interest of lawrences laurences Lawren ces wife in the estate and at the age of twenty one became the sole owner arid and proprietor of one of the old dominions min lons finest plantations the young landlord purchased adjoining acres until he finally possessed a plantation of acres one half of the area consisted of timber five farms on estate george washington divided tits his fields arid and forests into live five farms he designated as mansion home farm river filver farm farin union farm dogue atun farm and muddy hole farm ile he placed a foreman in ID charge of each farni farm with a manager over seeing the entire enterprise the manager was waa responsible to washington and reported in detail every sat do not gain the incorrect imbres sion that gloie washington was a front porch farmer because he hired ao an agricultural ma manager to look dooh after his farming interests washington was called away front from home homa so fre que itly that it was wag imperative imperant ve that thai lie he keep keel some one on the estate to look after his interests while our it resident was at home lie he worked as hard as any farm ban hand flis day began at sunrise aben he be fared forth to sec mee that his farm hands were at their stations on time arter after breakfasting at 7 washing ton would spend the morning riding oner mur tits ills farming fields seeing to it I 1 in person that his orders were faith fully eluted ue also kept all the lite farming fanning words records arid and accounts wrote HIP ill dally fiat openings in special aarl cultural diaries and took charge clif irge of the business affairs of uie the great plantation mount vernon flour famous ceorge washington lidington and liti fIrmed the old oft grist mill at mount vernon lind and il a prof stahle system of marIcel ln the ahem and other bread dralus he raised and made into flour or bulted bulled ship biscuits A creek a trIbu tributary tury of the Pot pro provided tided the elie power to turn the cumbersome and also served us its a waterway for navigation sailing ships froni from the lie seven seas came up the river and creek from the atlantic and an louied bt at mitt mill charf where here they loaded cargoes of flour and liar meled biscuits when file prices of 0 wheat and lour flour were low washing wash ing ton had ills his colored cooks bake etu supplies of ship biscuit which were packed in barrels and sold to the marl marinero mariners ma tiers as nutritious pro visions the mount blount vernon flour dour mills pr pro deuced a fine quality product it Us fame faine gained such importance in alie th british isles that the english customs officers eventually all of if hour flour on the basis of its orl orlin origin 0 in and label without opening and examining ench each shipment washing tons diaries record that at times he sold as many as 1000 barrels of hour flour in one cargo |