Volume 03 Page 0136

Crop planted at Gowrie 1842 13.120 Bushels in all = 652 Bbls
Crop planted at do Gowrie 1843 13.860 do [Bushels in all] = 707 Bbls
Dirty Rice 240 Bush not vounted which would make this 14.100 Bush
counting seed Rice & all from 268½ acres

1843
March	21	Planted 152 Acres Commencing on the 9th inst	268½ Ac planted
	30	do [Planted] 47½	in all
April	7	do 35	furnished this 13th April
	13	do 34 & this day see the first Rice out
	25	Commenced hoeing Rice for the first
May	31	Commenced hoeing after the Streatch water
June	20	Harvest water on new land 60 acres
	26	Finished the first hoeing after the streatch water
July	14	The New Land Commenced Shooting out
	20	Finished hoeing except the hills
August	26	Commenced Cutting Rice in Square No 13
Septr	20	Finished Cutting Rice & only 10 acres in yard
Octr	12	Finished Harvest & all the crop in the yard
	17	Commenced threshing Rice
	20	Started the Mill

1844
March	19	Planted 123 Acres Commenced 11th inst	The New ground is high & can only be flowd at Spring tides
April	1	do 27 do	The old ground from No 1 to N 12
			can be planted & flow'd at all tides or nearly so
	6	do 17½ do
	9	do 15 do
	10	do 15 do
	do	do 17 do	these open planting
	11	do 18½ do
	do	do 17½ do
	12	do 16 do
			this day finished planting 12 Apl 1844
		263½ Acres in all

Commenced hoeing Rice
this 19 April 1844 in No 11

1850 Commenced planting on 11th March but owing to a freshet & breaks
did not finish until 10th June

1851 Commenced planting on 13th March & finished on 14th May,
2½ Bush to Acre & the entire plantation open plant.

1852 Commenced planting on 18th March & finished on 7th May
2¼ Bush to Acre & the entire plantation open plant.

1853 Commenced planting on 16th March & finished on 26th April,
2¼ Bush to Acre & all open plant except Nos 7, 8, 13 Hermitage
& Nos 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, 14, 15, Gowrie, the three last Covered with broad hoe.
Commenced hoeing 27th April in No 5 Gow

1854 Commenced planting on 25th March in No 4 Her. Two Bush & 4 Quarts to Acre
when Covered & when open plant 2 Bush & One peck (New moon on 28th March)

1855 Commenced planting on 13th March (New Moon on 17th) in No 13 Gowrie, 2 Bush & 2 Quarts
to Acre, Covering it & this our first day we have planted 44 Acres, viz: Nos. 13, 14 Gowe
* We put in 2 Bush & 2 Quarts this year, the Overseer (Mr Clarke) deeming it quite enough
& also we not having an abundance of seed rice. The entire seed (400 Bush) from
Silk Hope