July 15, 1848 - July 28, 1848

1848 15 July Weeding Lot Tobacco
Planted a week or 2 ago Pickle cucumber

[lost in margin] clear & Cool weeding Lot Tobacco
cotton & Sweet Potatoes Laid by this day
stacking Oats this day &
[Hi]lling Grass -

[lost in margin] Finished stacking oats & weeding
down our Lot Tobacco, Hilling up
in Johns Branch & Plowing it
cutting & Halling up Grass
clear & cool nights

19 & 20 & 21. Plowing & Hilling Tobacco
sewed Turnips in fresh ground

22 Finishing Hilling up second years ground
Toped over Twice, put up 2 stacks grass
& Halled out manure on Turnip Patch

23rd Rained a little & cloudy ground dry

24. cleared off & no rain to do any good
Dry & Hot corn suffering very much
Began to Grub & Cut in new ground
Henry balled stacks etc.

25 Thrashing out wheat & sent 7 or 8
Bus corn to mill & ½ Bbl wheat
& 1 stack to Doct. Whites mill

26 began to tread out our wheat
shrubbing etc
A fine Rain Thanks to the ^{Ruler of all things}

27 Treading out wheat, Fixing
Turnip Patch etc Shrubing wheat land

28th A Fine Rain in evening & at night
Grubbing & worming Tobacco & toping
Henry fixing stacks forPaling for yard