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Hi acres of the Strlcklin field It about 8 of the Negro house
field - in all - about 2k acres - k finished by 11 oclock 12 plows going
The hoe hands finished Huckaby field by 8 or 9 oclock k

The Corn plows finished the N. Gin field about 10 oclock
It stopped
Mey2Uth. 1852.
Working the Corn in the Pond to day with 3 plows It 6 hoes Wo
are running round with turning plows throwing the dirt from
the Corn, It taking out the grass with the hoes The plows went
ever about 2/3 of the ground, It the hoes about half
Hi shovels running around the Cotton, It finished the two
fields they were in on Saturday It all to within about 9 acres
of the negro field - in all about $$ acres
The Hoe hands passed ever the Stricklin It 12 acre negro .
house fields - in all about U6 acres* Sene of the hands were
otherwise engaged
The Corn plows, 5> in number, commenced running around the
Dick N x field with turning plows, throwing the dirt to the
Corn, going over about half the field
Wrote to Laughlin 6 sy son John
Light shower of rain in the evening* The warmest day of
the so aeon. Thermometer at about 86

at 1 oclock