May 5, 1875 - May 12, 1875

1875 May 5 Very cool & windy plowing up shuck
pen Lock for cotton broom corn potatoes etc etc

5th. Some frost Pride Hunt & them left here this morning
Manuring plant beds today plowing for corn

6th. Plowing for corn. Lowry came this morning
to fix ground for corn Helping Jimmie
Haul rails in corn field this morning
planted cotton broom corn watermellons cuc
umbers symblings etc etc - Tomatoe etc ^gardenin ^yesterday

7th Ed & Jimmie planting Tis is helping
Ed this morning till I get ready then
he is to help me plant my corn

8 Edmond fixing & planting corn today
Cloudy & like for rain quite cool
Nannie and little Nan gone to see Jerry & Sallie
& Sallie & Kate this morning dont know
when she will return, let her have $5.00

9th Mr Joseph M Moses Came her[e] stayed all night
I went to ^meetings Saturday & Sunday pretty days —
wind blows very hard this eve[n]ing — —

10th Monday May Ed plowing for corn on flat
land Rained a little shower this morning
& 11 or 12 oclock rained a very pretty shower
then cleared off very pretty a little cooler

11th. Sent Jimmie to Mr Yates mill corn for me
& Ed meal & I sent nearly 1½ Bus wheat for
flour Cool night but warm this morning

12 Lowry Tisbel Kate & Nannie Lowry
opening my beds to plant corn the others
worked in garden till he got ready & they turned
in planting corn snapsPeas & simblings & nearly
finished planting by 12 oclock, now burning
off new ground that has not been tended
Ed & Jimmie plowing for corn in lower
field Ed helped burn off new ground to day