Contents: Introduction (Alan Fusonie and Leila Moran) --- An Embarrassment of Richness: Colonial Soil Cultivation Practices (David O. Percy) --- Edmund Ruffin: His Contributions and Legacy to Early Land Use in Agriculture (Charles E. Kellogg) --- The Farm in the Green Mountains (Alice Herdan-Zuchmayer, excerpted and translated by Irene Heppner --- Land Use Records in the National Archives Building (Douglas Helms) --- Access to Data Bases on Land Use Material Charles Bebee --- Editorial Reflections: Beginnings of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics Branch Library (Angelina J. Carabelli) --- Agriculture of the Plains States: A Speculation on Land Use Policy for Century Three (W. A. Dando and R. D. Mower).