August 30, 1849 - September 7, 1849

30th & 31st Augt. worming & succoring Tobacco
Machine came here 31st from Mr Lewis’s about
11 oclock & by the time we got a start it
commenced Raining, & Rained a good shower we
carried the wheat with straw after we discover-
=ed that it was going to be wet we then
wound up & it Rained sure enough till in^nightthe

1st Sept. ground very wet & the machine doing
nothing spining etc etc —
Began to machine wheat between 1 & 2 oclock
in evening till night put up 4 Stacks straw
Kit & Mr. Lewis 3 hands come ——

2 Fannie W. & Cate went to Greenfield
Jerry Better than he has been for several days

3. began again to Thrash wheat fine day
Kit Mr Lewis s 3 Hands & 2 from Mrs Hunts
came & we finished & carried the machine
to James Whiteheads got done about night
1½ days Thrashing Our crop wheat

4 alse & Ann gone to Mrs Coleman to
Pull fodder & its Turned out to be cloudy
& a little rainy, succoring & worming Tobacco
Henry gone to Mrs Hunt after 10½ Bushels
corn making 4 Bbls lent me —
Fanned out some wheat to make flour this
morning — alse & ann returned at 12

5. worming & succoring & toping Tobacco
on Branch & Lot. Henry gone to Glenns
Mill 10 Bus. wheat for flour 5½ Bus. corn
for meal. Turned cooler. I am going to
Mrs McCullocks & Riceville to day —

6 Pulling Blade fodder after morning
all hands my wife went to Mrs Colemans

7 alse gone to Mrs Colemans to Pull fodder
worming & succoring Tobacco in new ground
Fair & cool this morning ⅓ done Pulling^fodder
Mr Myers & Henry getting slabs, Tying up fodder
This evening.