June 11, 1875 - June 15, 1875

1875 June 11th Ed Beding Lot, Dolley my Big
Black Sow has 8 pigs Lady Wyatt & Kit has
got 10, clear Hot weather at this time
Ed gone to corn field this evening Plowing
our corn Jimmie Plowing out garden
Greens Potatoes Snaps Cornetc etc etc
Ed D Nathl will plowing over my corn
this evening & made a start to weed & then it ^{& Replant over}

11 Planting Tobacco in Lot drawing Plants
replanting my Potatoes this morning Tobacco &
Tomatta etc Just Plowed Garden Rained
& Hailed & wind Blew very hard rained & Hail ^{Killed the young Turkey}

12 ¹²Tremendous ^{22 June Hail in Piles in many places now} Storm in
manay places wheat & every
thing beat down Planting Lot Tobacco & finished
Mr H Templeton came down here this day & told me
he wanted 3 or 4000 thousand to finish Planting
& Replanting Tobacco & I told him he could
not get any till I was done planting I told him
If he would come down & help Dews finish
he could get 3 or 4000 he done & went & drawed
& planted Saturday Replanted Saturday & Mon=
=day morning Templeton his wife & Alice Dalton
all at my plant Bed again & got more Planted
Jere - his wife & family came down in the rain
Saturday no rain at his House Friday night

13 Still Poorly Mot & Puss Graves & Jere was
Poorly & none of us went to meeting at all

14 Jimmie gone to mill Millers 1½ Bus corn
for me & Some for himself Edmond began
to Plow in our corn last Friday & Plowing
to day clouday & like for rain

15 Jime Ed & Jim Plowing corn Nannie & Wm weed[ing]
& thining Kale at work in Garden, Ed Dews
Nat. weeding my corn Kate at work in Garden
for my wife cloudy & cool -
Rained in evening & replanted Tobacco till my
Ed Dews Nat helped E Dews Eza this evening