May 16, 1870 - May 22, 1870

1870 May 16 Plowed Potatoes Irish & Corn by Patch
Plowed Nannie Patch Planted Cotton to day
Broom Corn Watermelons Simblings & Cucumber
Clear pretty weather hired Mary Smith to day
Clabe Ditching in lot

17th I went to Mr Hunts place & shop Keatts
coltering Sam Hilling just began to Clabe Corn
back & finished Ditching Charles Cut Hay picked
up & burning roots in new ground & fresh
Nat will chop out our corn by Irish Potatoe Patch

18th Coltering new ground finished 1 way & begun
Second Way. Charles & Nat getting roots all day
off new ground began to Hill in fresh ground

19. at work in new ground coltering rooting
etc I went to fix fence around mountain field
for my cattle went to Mr Woodings & Lewis's

20th Turned 6 young Cattle in mountain
field marked Millys calf that makes the 6th
Jacob Cut sooks Calf this morning & marked
it beautiful weather at this time & warm,
Clabe & his wife & Lucinda here hilling to day
& Nat has been there all day - this evening
he is hilling with them thundering nearly ^day all
Very Warm day. Rained Twice this evening ^{a very little}but

21st Beautiful growing morning tolerable
clear & warm Clabe Hilling new ground
Charles Coltered fresh ground yesterday
Claborne did not Come to Hill Saturday to day
Charles did not quite finish plowing fresh
ground above Granary Sam replanting corn
Keatts finished coltering new ground & laying off
I went to Coltering in corn Doron plowed his
watermelon Patch & my Potatos & Plowing in
Corn all day throwing dirt from Corn

22 Sunday Beautiful day and very warm
Very warm Growing weather to day -