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Tuesday 25th
Octr 1853

Shucked corn all day a killing
frost this morning the first
we have this fall to kill vegetation

Wednesday
26

Shucked corn
27 negroes gathered their packes of corn

Thursday
27 Oct

Rained verry hard to day
shucked corn & worked at Barn

Friday 28

Worked all day fixing ditches
arund the Barn warm

Saturday
29 Oct

CHoped & Split wood & Rails
in creek Bottom quite cool

Monday
31 Oct

Pulled & halled 6 loads corn
quite a heavey frost this morning

Tuesday the
1st November

Pulled & halled 9 loads of corn
frost again this morning (run 2 waggons

Wensday the
2 Novr

Pulled & halled 6 loads corn
quite cloudy in the morning but cleared
of at night & turned cool

Friday the
4 NOv

Pulled & halled 9 loads corn
finished our 50 Acre feild which is
all the corn we planted this year except the
little stable orchard we had 49 four
horse waggon loads of corn in the Huck & it
shill out 25 Bu to the load or more I think
we made 1300 Bu corn this year on 55 Acres
of Land the season was not good as can be
seen by [??] to the month of July & Aug