Attending to the Farm Answer Key

Mathematics and Attending to the Farm 1. How high was the fence around the vegetable garden at Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello? 10 feet high 2. How long was Thomas Jefferson’s vegetable garden? 1000 feet 3. This garden was divided into 24 “approximate” squares. 4. Describe the three set classification factors for the garden. The long garden was arranged into 3 sets according to the part of the plant that was harvested; “fruits”, “roots” or “leaves.” 5. Define “ferme orne’e”. This means ornamental farm. 6. Name two other gardens that were established at Monticello. At Monticello, the other two gardens were called the fruitery and the vineyard. 7. Mr. Jefferson had 5 outlying farms covering 5,000 acres. 8. It was said Thomas Jefferson could ride on horseback “without fatigue six or eight miles a day,” and sometimes thirty or forty. 9. Mr. Jefferson invented a tool that he claimed was “mathematically demonstrated to be perfect.” The name of this tool was plow moldboard. 10. It was the job of this tool to lift and turn over the sod that will be cut by the other parts of the plow_.