Show thomas jefferson ons sons ideas with reference to agriculture gr were tar far in a advance ill core of 1 h his 1 s day declared james E ward h head e ad of the division ot of I 1 sciences e at cl clerndon ernson college in a I a ill on a mort monticello call 0 an experimental farm at the meeting of the committee at monticello he was among the first to practice crop rotation he was a scientific t ft farmer and in or arranging for it his by system ol 01 rolt ilion I 1 OR he be d divided aided vided his cultivated I 1 lands d into four farms of acre a each ch and and was americas first each farm into seven fields of 40 acres the boundaries were marked by rows of 0 peach trees the seven helda fields indicated that his system of botu rotation of 11 crops crop embraced seven even years year he reduced corn to one year in seven even and tobacco seems to have been eliminated entirely he at al wai s stressed the a maxim that where her und the soil if is left film bare the sun absorbs the nutritious juices of the earth 11 consequently in his to rotation r a t inin system he did not t do besig sig scientific farmer nate any land to he be fallow 1 I to but rather cultivated certain plants es specially ally legumes because he accepted the idea that such plants would old absei b fertility from toy th the atmosphere t mo sphere and store it in the soil it another observation can be verified by a study of this rotation system th the crops top planted OR on the various T fields cd provided a continuity of employment Y for far both the labor force a and d the work ork stock and thereby adeby BY avoided OF tied excessive s wave peak demands dem d |