Perhaps if he had had to engage in hard manual toil every day he would have had less inclination for such employment, but he worked with his own hands only intermittently, devoting his time mostly to planning and oversight.
One such plan for Dogue Run Farm is given on the next page.

To understand it the reader should bear in mind that the farm contained five hundred twenty-five arable acres divided into seven fields, each of which contained about seventy-five acres.
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of | | | | | | | | Fields | 1793 | 1794 | 1795 | 1796 | 1797 | 1798 | 1799 | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Corn | |Buckwheat | Clover | Clover | Clover | 3 | and | Wheat | for | Wheat | or | or | or | |Potatoes| | Manure | | Grass | Grass | Grass | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Clover | Corn | |Buckwheat | Clover | Clover | 4 | or | and | Wheat | for | Wheat | or | or | | Grass |Potatoes| | Manure | | Grass | Grass | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Clover | Clover | Corn | |Buckwheat | Clover | 5 | or | or | and | Wheat | for | Wheat | or | | Grass | Grass |Potatoes| | Manure | | Grass | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Clover | Clover | Clover | Corn | |Buckwheat | 6 | or | or | or | and | Wheat | for | Wheat | | Grass | Grass | Grass |Potatoes| | Manure | | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Clover | Clover | Clover | Corn | |Buckwheat 7 | Wheat | or | or | or | and | Wheat | for | | | Grass | Grass | Grass |Potatoes| | Manure | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |Buckwheat | Clover | Clover | Clover | Corn | | 1 | for | Wheat | or | or | or | and | Wheat | | Manure | | Grass | Grass | Grass |Potatoes| | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Buckwheat | Clover | Clover | Clover | Cornr | 2 | Wheat | for | Wheat | or | or | or | and | | | Manure | | Grass | Grass | Grass |Potatoes| -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Of this rotation he noted that it "favors the land very much; inasmuch as there are but three corn crops [i.e.grain crops] taken in seven years from any field, & the first of the wheat crops is followed by a Buck Wheat manure for the second Wheat Crop, wch.

is to succeed it; & which by being laid to Clover or Grass & continued therein three years will a ford much Mowing or Grassing, according as the Seasons happen to be, besides being a restoration to the Soil--But the produce of the sale of the Crops is small, unless encreased by the improving state of the fields.

Nor will the Grain for the use of the Farm be adequate to the consumption of it in this Course, and this is an essential object to attend to." In a second table he estimated the amount of work that would be required each year to carry out this plan of rotation, assuming that one plow would break up three-fourths of an acre per day.