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Wensday the
7th June

Thined corn & set out potatoe
slips this morning ground in fine
order for setting out slips a good season
last night

Thursday
8 June

Finished plowing the cassel corn
field the 3rd time

Friday
the 9 June

Plowed & hoed the the peas
in the cassel field

Satruday 10 June

Negroes plowed their corn
& Foster went to Mt Sinai to Temperance
meeting

Monday
the 12th June

Rained Saturday night & sunday
a first late season ground
thoroughly wet set out cabbage plants &
potatoe sprouts until dinner then we
COMMENCED HARVESTING our
wheat crop in the field East of meadow
with 3 cradles & 3 binders

Teusday 13 June 1854 Cut what all day
with 3 cradles in the Evening we
started a Reaping machine to cutting
wheat cut a round with it & stoped
the wheat was rather green it cut
verry well Dr Wiseman and my self bought
it for #144 it is one of McCormicks
Reapers & was made in Chicago Ill
I think it will do verry well if it
does not break

Wensday
14 June

run 3 cultivators in pump
field plowed premium corn
howed sweet potatoes [??]

Thursday
15 June

Cut some wheat & sent
5 hands to Dr Wisemans in the
afternoon to help him bind
after the reaper it Dont cut light grain
good