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JARED ELIOT
1685-1763
THE BEGINNING OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL LITERATURE

In colonial times almost every man was a farmer. Even the preachers and doctors were part-time farmers.

Jared Eliot, a minister and doctor of Killingsworth, Conn., was no exception. In his spare time he practiced farming and when he rode horseback calling upon his parishioners and the sick in his community, he noticed the way other farmers farmed.

He noticed that water running from a vegetated hillside was clear, but that water running from a bare hillside was muddy. He believed that the mud in the water was fertile soil from above. Most of New England was hilly, and every time muddy water ran off one of the fields the field got poorer. Eliot became so much interested in farming that he carried on many experiments, and studied the farming methods advocated by English authors.

At that time there were......

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