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Tuesday the 28th July 1857 Rained in the shower
all day pulled down the old [barn]
+ pu at the wood pile for firewood
to school for fater went []
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Wednesday the 29th July 1857 commenced
thrashing our wheat today Holden
Smith [] [] + Frank Hill helped []
---Rained a hard rain in the evening
it has rained everyday for 10 or 12
days [growed] thoroughly soaked
[] beings to sick + [looks] well
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Thursday the 30th July trashed
wheat all day same hand we had
yesterday + Brad Matheis [ ]
Dr [] still cloudy but
not much rain today
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Friday 31 July 1857 thrashed wheat all day
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Satuday 1 Aug 1857 Hulled in oat all day
with two wagons sowed a small lot of
turnips today
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Monday the 3rd August 1857 thrashed wheat all
day rained a good shower in the afternoon
and at night a very hard rain
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Tuesday the 4 August 1857, rained all [the]
forenoon, moderately + in the evennig a very
ahrd rain growed thoroughly soaked
thrashed wheat when it was not raining
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Wednesday the 5th August 1857 finished
thrashing wheat at noon today
in the evening we had a verry hard
[weird] + rain blowed a good deal
of the corn down + broke [] off
[ ] trash wheat
in afternoon