May 20, 1875 - May 25, 1875

1875 May 20 Edmd fixing Tobacco Land Hilling dragging
& Plowing to day fair day pretty day --
Lowry coltered & finished Beding Tobacco Land by
12 oclock & went Home paid in full
Ed Dews Nat & Tis Trible Hilling up new ^ground

21 Ed Dews & Jim Nannie & Wm fixing Land for
Tobacco. pretty day fair
Ed Dews Nat, Hilling & Tisble Trible in new ground
My Hogs Sows & shoats all up but the Boar
which is at Henry Templetons & I will Cut him

22 My Hogs all up except Boar at Henry
Templeton Edmond Dews fixing Tobacco
Land in new ground to day fair day
Ed Dews Nat & Tis here till 12 oclock
work in Garden fixing Snaps working
Greens etc Hilling to plant Greens -

23 I went to Sunday school ^{& dry weather} pretty day & warm-

24 cloudy & warm went to Mr Yates yesterday
Mr Danl R Hunt & Sister Coleman came here yesterday
Raining this morning Ed & all his Gnng will hill this
this morning in new ground we have got 10 young
Turkeys lost 3, Dolley has not got a calf yet
& 3 or 4 of my Sows will have pigs before long
Began to Plant Tobacco to day planted p^s on branch
& nearly got done p^s by Bee House before they went
to Packing Tobaing Tobacco - Raining Still very
pretty & slowly most too hard to be Out

25. Edomd Dews N. Came here Planting Tobacco
Greens Tomatoes Pepper etc & helped Edmond put
out Tobacco in a [Buk it?] rained & to Ed Dews
Ezekiel & me has been planting Tobacco planted
all the Hills we have Mr DRH & Sister Coleman
left this morning for CH. got done [m?]
by 12 oclock Ed D N. & Tis Hilling & working for Ed
D. that lives here to help me to get about 3000 Hills
more than I have planted for myself.