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family consists of Sect + Wife Daughter I am + Vally
sane Wo Yoston John + James Aunt Polly Whitman liver
7 Horn clerk in Tlon
with us making 9 white + 29 Blk in family 32 in all
corn is selling at 90 cts wheat 125 pork 10 torch lts
Rye 123 Oats 50 cts Bu Beef at 5 to 6 cts cows + calver 15 to
$ 25 mules 125 to $ 175.00 Horses $150 to $200 cotton yarn 200
Bunch Common Brown Domestic Cloth 25 cts yd Janes
cloth 100 to 125 yd from 8 cts lte sheet 50 cts lbs wool 100 th
we have several mules for sale Also several cows + calves
+ 3 beeves for sale have not sold any of my last years
cop of wheat expect to sell 5 or 600 Bu at 150 Bu
Also expect to sell 500 Bu corn at 100 or 125 Bu
I give son Frank the Totem + Cassel place which makes our
farm smaller Also give him little George + Sam two of
our negro hands we commenced the Graves work
plowing with 4 plows in House field for corn verry
fine Dry weather

Saturday 4th Jany 1862 finished breaking the Heaven
field + been making Hill side Ditches in Bark
field all this week cool dry + nice weather for
work we have made a great many Hill
side Ditches in Bark field expect to
sow it in oats + clover seed

Monday 6th Jany 1862 Chopped + Halled wood

Wednesday 8th Jany 1862 Killed 15 hogs
weighing 2112ths making in all 63 hogs
killed weighing 12655 lbs Average 201ths
15 or 20 of them under one year old have
over 18 months old

Thursday 9 Jan 1862 Rained a light shower
warm

Saturday 11 Jan 1862 Choped + halled wood
yesterday we worked on Road towards Dr Willang
warm Ther 74 Deg

Monday 13 Jany 1862 ran 4 plows until
noon Rained + stoped us from plowing
some cooler to day but verry warm yerserday
Ther 74 Deg