March 22, 1870 - April 3, 1870

1870 March 22 My Young steers Bushing in Oats
— — — I went to Wm McHaneys after
Dinner this evening — —

23 Fixing ground & all hands planting
Potatoes Irish, Plowing Garden weather tolerable
Nannie & Sallie gone to Mr Woodings
Beautiful weather to day wind from NW

24 Sewing oats by Owens Barn Bill plowing

25 Sewing Oats again to day I went to old
place & Whiteheads Store this evening
planted Peas Beets & onions etc Mr Pringle came
here 24th Inst. March & Grafted 30 or upwards of
apple slips from Mr Kelleys & 6 or 8 dwarf Pears
& 2 slips July apples here in this tree on hill
towards Bridge corner of yard

26 I went to Millers Mill to day carried 6 Bus wheat
for myself a BBbl flour ½ Bbl wheat lent Rich^d Carr^d
2 Turns 1 Bbl corn for us meal 1 Turn for Keatts of corn
& one for Sam of corn for meal got it all, & brot it
Home, Keatts & Sam went to Jennings Lains to help
Roll Logs, Rained Very hard all the evening, -

27th Stayed at home Ed went to Jacobs to day

28 29th Burning Log Heaps this morning
Little cloudy this morning then
Sewing Oats part of the day

30 Sewing Oats & will get done all we
have got out this evening

31st Raining all day Halled up stack oats on
Hill got out pt of them & put balance in cutting House
to feed on Keatts got my waggon & mules gone after
wheat straw at Shields to feed the cow he has

Aprl 1st Cloudy ^{Keatts went home to striped his toba before night too} all day Striping Tobacco Sam & Ben

2 striping Tobacco Sam & Ben helping Raining

3 Raining a little all day ground Very wet
I wrote 3 letters this week 1 to Jonathan Graves
Clifton Hill [Mo?] 1 to Alo[n]zo Hunt Lynchg
& alice Hunt