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Thursday the 21 Septr 1854 run 2 Turn plows
in the 55 Acre field and one in the premium
corn lot Turning it over to sow in wheat
I failed to make a premium crop of corn
from the dry weather cut the corn off
& intend sowing it for a premium crop
of wheat quite cool & cloudy for 2
days past

Friday the 22 Septr 1854 Halled in & stacked
2 Loads hay Sowed Two Bu wheat on our
premium corn Lot & finished Breaking up
fallow ground for wheat
We made this year in all 96 Loads of
Hay worth say $2- Load

Saturday the 23 Septr 1854 Commenced Sowing
Wheat in the 55 Acre field we are running 2
harrows harrowing in the west end of the field
we sow the wheat & harrow it in without
plowing it leaves the ground in good condition
& seems to put the wheat in the ground
tolerable well

Saturday the 30 Septr 1854 Been sowing wheat all
this week except today we stoped to help [??]
move a house fair & warm all the week

Saturday 6 Octr 1854 Been sowing wheat & halling
Brick & pulling corn in the cassel field
we commenced on monday the 1 Octr & pulled
in the afternoon & halled it was too wet in
the morning on the 5 & 6 we had a slight
frost but not enough to kill any thing
our corn in the cassel field is verry
sorry I think we make not more than
350 Bu on 35 Acres it was too Dry
we have a first chance of peas
in the field