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ACCOKEEK, Md. — The ag
ricultural heritage of colonial
America — tilling and planting done
by hand, crops raised without insec
ticides — is being preserved on a
280-acre farm in southern Maryland.
The National Colonial Farm, in
Piscataway National Park, is a “liv
ing” museum showcasing the ag-
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ricultural techniques of the 1700s.
Staple crops, including com and
tobacco, are raised without insec
ticides. The tilling and planting is
done by hand. Strict attention is paid
livestock tending to assure it is done
in the same manner a Chesapeake
Bay area colonist would have.
But the Accokeek Foundation, a
private concern which operates the
farm in cooperation with the Na
tional Park Service, is looking for
ward as well as backward in terms of
expe ri mentation.
For example, the farm’s operators
hope current research can be applied
to such modern problems as crop
blight, a disease that nearly wiped
out American chestnut trees more
than 50 years ago.
During the past decade, farm ad
ministrators have been nurturing a
grove of chestnut trees, which were
used by colonists for fences and
houses. This year, for the first time,
the grove produced a substantial
harvest of nuts without insecticides.
Dr. David Percy, assistant direc
tor of the farm, said that by experi
mentally irradiating chestnut seeds,
scientists hope to produce the right
combination of genetic characteris
tics to make the chestnut tree blight
resistant.
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“In all of our research, we are look
ing 10 to 15 years into the future,”
Percy explained.
The research extends to such valu
able annual crops as corn, tobacco
and soybeans, as well as grass. The
farm leases a 14-acre plot to the Scott
Grass Seed Co., which develops and
tests hundreds of different strains of
grass used in parks and lawns.
The primary feature of the farm,
however, is its faithful adherence to
middle-class colonial life along the
nearby Potomac River.
Situated across the river from his
toric Mount Vernon, the Colonial
Farm consists of a group of gray,
weather-beaten wood buildings that
typify the period.
The board-and-batten main farm
house is protected from sun and
rain by rough hewn shingles. Nearby
is an outhouse, the kind colonists re
ferred to as “the necessary.”
Not far from the house is a herb
garden, a source of spices and home
remedies during the colonial period.
Clare Moran, a farm administra
tive assistant, points out that some
herbs, such as foxglove, were even
used to treat heart disease. "They
treated everything that we wouldn’t
dream of trying now — any kind of
disease.”
The farm also contains a kitchen
garden with a variety of vegetables
including potatoes, radishes, okra,
eggplant and various types of beans.
“We try not to plant anything that
is not colonial, said Moran. "For
instance, we don’t grow tomat*
because they were considen
|x>isonous by the colonists.
Moran noted that experimeii
tion is carried on even in tliegarfc
For example, it is believed li
the |x>tato hug can be stavedof|
planting horseradishes nearby
seems to work, but we’ll hav
out lor another year, she said
Now as in colonial times, livesta
is an integral part of the farm. Citj
pigs and Ixtrnyard fowl are bredi
the same characteristics valued
colonial times.
Moran said Red Devon cattlew
prevalent in southern Marylanddt
ing the colonial period. “Theyw
an all-purpose breed, ” she sai
“They could lx? trained as oxen
well as furnish meat and milk.
I lorned Dorset sheep, whichta
the peculiar ability to give birtli
various times of the year, wereii
raised, she said, and the pigs we
cross between domestic swine
the indigenous wild hog varieh
The farm, which also servesi
tourist attraction, is supportedh
Accokeek Foundation endowmo
its well as other grants andconhi
tions. However, this year loundati
officials expect to receive a $300,1
allotment out of the Department
Interior appropriations funding.
Each year, in the springandi
the farm conducts sales of its go
and re-enacts colonial life, comple
with authentic costumes
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