April 6, 1849 - April 14, 1849

1849 April 6 Weather fine & clear, onions
salsafy Beets come up very pretty on Hill
Oats coming up well - .

7 Coltering in Big new ground
Plowing on Branch for Corn -

8 Fair morning & Beautifull weather
ground a little hard clouded up in evening

9. cloudy & like for Rain this morning
Planted 1 Bus. Sweet Potatoes seed got from
Sister Colemans & 1 peck of Our Own except
the peck, all of Ours Rotted, last ^{the 7th}Saturday

10 cloudy & like for rain weather good
Planted Sweet Potatoes this morning
got 1½ Bushels from Mrs McCullocks
Plowing on Branch for corn coltering
& Hilling in new ground
Nearly done Plowing for Corn

11th Finished D^o & Coltering new ground ^way one
- 2 Hands Hilling weather cool & windy
Cut little Bull yearling to day -
Laying off to Plant Corn, one way
My wife & all walk to Mrs Hunts to day
we have 12 Lambs & have lost about 10

12. clear & cool laying off & Began to Plant
corn this morning = Planting some water melon seed in^{Sweet Potatoe Patch}

13. Planting corn left hand of Path by ^Barn middle
Laying off for Planting Corn clear & Cool

14 Laying off & Planting^cornleft hand of Path
- clear & cool this morning Put stack
fodder & stack Oats in house about this time
Planted Corn field snaps by middle barn
Finished Planting corn the other sid[e] branch
next to middle barn laying off to Plant this
side branch Harrowing Beds for drill Corn