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Wednesday ^May 27²⁷ 1868
Commenced planting corn

Thursday May 28^th finished planting corn

Saturday May 30^th Jimmy Boyd and myself
started about 6 o'clock a.m. after fish to
Perryville and succeeded in getting 1100
herring at ^$1.50 pr hundred - besides 1 1/2
bushels of "Peach blow" potatoes for Rev. L. C. Rutter
at $2.00 per bushel.

Sunday May 31^st Reached home with
my fish just at day light in the morning.
cleaned and put our fish in pickle after
breakfast. Let J Boyd have 400 herring.

Tuesday June 2^d Drained the fish and
packed them away in salt.
Thursday June 4th Jimmy Boyd worked
all day on the roads. Levi Barnet took
dinner with us. Planted broom corn and
pumpkin seed.

Friday June 5^th Jimmy Boyd worked all
day on the roads. Harriet and myself
went to M^r Rutter's and left his potatoes