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1834
Friday & Saurday the 16 & 17 June cut wheat
all the time with 3 cradles

Monday the 19 June

Finished cutting our meditera
naean wheat & commenced cutting Troy
wheat in cherry orchard with Reaper it
does verry well cut it clean and over
nearly every head in the after noon
There was a great many of the neighbors
come in to see it cut and were
well please with it
Wife & Francis started to Lee I W Floyd and
to Norfolk on a spree (started the 20th)

Teusday the 20 June 1854 Finished cutting wehat
to day cut our premium acre
to day 55 Doz we cut it with Reapter
and I do no believe there was half a
Bushel of shatters left on the Acre
in the Evening it Rained a find season
which was needed commenced mowing
the Evening in the Big meadow in the wild
grass

Wensday the 21 June 1854 mowed with 3 hands
& run 3 cultivators in pump field
warm

Thursday 22nd June 1854 Halled Three loads of
hay on 4 horse waggon & run Three plows
3 loads laying by our corn at cassel place

Friday 23rd June 1854 commenced halling
in wehat mowed until Dinner with
4 scy this afternoon raked up hay &
run 2 waggons halling 2 loads of hay &
then wheat the balance of the day
[text lined off to left] hay 2 loads

Saturday the 24 June 1854 Cloudy this morning
& we cant haul wheat running 4 plows
in cassel forn & 2 hands mowing
did not rain any plowed all day