ENVolume 04 Page 0031
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[Planting Table]
| Commenced Planting | Finished on May 3d Commence with Nos. 8, & 13 Hermitage. Full Moon on . The entire Plantation is Open Plant. Commenced Hoeing in No 5 Gowrie on May 3d. This year 2 Bushels & 2 Quarts per Acre. Mr Venters our New & Young Overseer made some terrible mistakes in the watering of his Rice, & We have made a most miserable Crop & with a good & perfect Season We have lost more than in any Such year Since My Father has been on Savannah River () all through the gross ignorance of this our Overseer. | ||
| Commenced Planting | Finished on Commenced in No 9 Hermitage, 2 Bushs 3 Quarts per Acre. New Moon on . All North of Legare Canal is Covered, also Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Gowrie & Legare No. 1. Rest of plantation Open. We have 1499 Bushels of Good feed from Silk Hope Plantation N.B. This has been an uncommon Spring & one which will be well remembered by Planters. Viz: so very Cold & all so very backward. Today is & I find a fire pleasant in the evening. Commenced Hoeing in Nos. 12 & 13 Her. On Thousands of May Birds & many Prime Hands are taken off. I leave Gowrie . |
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