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Tuesday 16th Aug 1859 run 4 Farm plows in
Barn field + 2 wagons halling manure
cloudy + warm

Wednesday 17 Aug 1859 run 4 plows + wagon
halling manure warm

Thursday 18 Aug 1859 run 3 plows the other
hands helped Holden with Thresh
whead

Friday 18 Aug 1859 run 3 plows + helped
Holden with Hraih wheat as yesterday
with 7 hands as yesterday
Rained a good season to day about
noon wuit to plowing in affernoon
again ground too wet only ou bughest
part of the field
The rains for the lost two weeks
has helped our verry much a great
many new shoot trick put out but
it come too late for us to make much
come cant make more than 1/3 roy
a corn crop say 1000 Bu

Saturday 20 th August 1859 Commenced saving
Rye in mud road field East other branch
run 6 plows we are sowing the
Rye in corn
sowed a small patch of Turning seed
along the Branch in the same field

Monday 21 Aug 1859 finished sowing
rye we have sowed 10 of 12 acres
made fence in the falford pasture

Tuestday 23 August 1859 Commenced
sowing winter Oats in the Roberts
Orchard with 5 plows finished Our
fence in the Fulford pasture
Rained a good Season in afternoon