June 23 - July 20, 1847

1847 June 23rd Plowing Sweet Potatoes Peas &
Cotton Patch this day — — —

26. Thursday & friday cloudy & Rainy
Laying by corn when wet Raining
Fed shoemaking balance weeding
new ground Tobacco, Plowing in Johns
field - clear this morning

28 Fine growing weather began to
cut wheat saturday evening & this
morning Plowing in corn field & Hilling Sweet
Potatoes & then for cutting wheat etc in
fresh ground 29th Laying by corn
^29thnext to orchard, & weeding down second
yrs ground, - tremendous Rain this evening

30 ground full wet to wet cut some
wheat to day & Plowed some —

July 1st Plowing next to orchard &
weeding seconds yrs Tobacco Land
weather cool at night & mornings

2nd & 3rd. Laying by big field & lot Tobacco
& cutting wheat etc etc

5 Hilling up cotton weeding Lot Tobacco
nearly done laying buy Corn

8. Not quite done Laying by Corn. Hilling
up Sweet Pottoes, — fixing Turnip Patch
Raining this evening —

9 Raining this morning & it rained very
hard last evening — weather warm, -
Fed shoemaking alse & Ann shelling Corn
Jane & Lila spining, Henry gone to shop

10 Henry gone to mill with 2
Bb^ls Corn, Balance Grubing in new ground
Rained for several days hard & ground very wet

12 Cutting wheat about this time

20 Cutting Oats & Finished this day —
got up most of our wheat Saturday 17.
Tobacco all very bad off wet & Grass