Show thomas jefferson Jeffers was americas first scientific farmer jeffersons ideas with re reference ferenc e to agriculture were tar far in advance of his day declared james E ward head ot of the division of social bences at Cl clemson ernson college enla in a talk an on monticello an experimental I 1 farm at the meeting ot of the committee at monticello I 1 he le was amon among ai the first to practice crop rotation he was a scientific farmer and in arranging for his system of rotation he divided his cultivated lands into four farms farad of acres each and each farm into seven fields of aa 40 acres the boundaries were marked n by rows of 0 peach trees the seven fields indicated that his system ot of rotation ol of crops crops embraced se seven ven years he reduced corn to one year in seven and tobacco seems beems to have been eliminated entirely he always stressed the maxim that where the he soil Is III left bare the s sun un absorbs th thi nutritious juices of the eaith consequently in his rotation system he cd d not besig note nate ally land to be allow but rather cultivated certain tain plants especially ally legumes because he be accepted the idea that thal such would absorb fertility iron from thi the ov ar mo sphere and store it in the soil boil another observation can be verified by a study orthis ot of thin this rot rotation aaion system the crops planted on the various fl fields ields provided a continuity of 0 em for or both thi the labor jabor for ce and the work stock and oer thereby e by avoided excessive peak demands |