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1873 Oct 1st Fair morning Burning 2 coal
Kilns working on coal yesterday all day
Mr Thomas Yates came this morning Spayed
& marked 4 shoats Cut & marked 3 Shoats Turned
out & marked 1 Boar & ^{9 in all} Sow & Cut 1 little Bull

2nd Began to Cut Tobacco in Big Lot this morning late
Standing as Kit help Mr Yates about my shoats.
this morning 4 of my shoats up with the Hogs
expect to cut Tobacco again to days & House in
new prize Barn, Let Edmond Tucker have 9 lb
nails to cover Tobacco House cutting Tobacco
3 till after 12 Oclock then Hauling up & Cart
gave way & about 1 hour be[fore] Sun Kit went to
Mattherlys & got my waggon & mules to Haul up
Tobacco, Hauled one Load & placed it away
I went to Mount Airy & carried Mr Creasey some^butter

3rd Hauling Tobacco this morning & putting in
new prize Barn only 2 of my Shoats up this morning

4 Filled new prize Barn & made a smoke under it
yesterday & this morning working on Coal Kiln
& Cutting my Tobacco Cloudy & rained a little
Raind Several times to day Did not Cut but
Cut Some tops Hauled Some & Coal fired the
new prize Barn cleared off about night

5 Clear this morning I have about 70 ^stacks Tobacco
Cut & on stick in my Lot cut yesterday by Sam
Mattherly very pleasant weather at this time

6 Raining this morning they put my Tobacco Cut
in Old prize in the end towards new prize Barn
& in morning Wm W Moses came after me to go
up to Jeres to the burying of Jers Baby named
Jeremiah William who died yesterday Sunday

7 evening raining off & on nearly all ^day & cool
Our folks got wood Hauled some yesterday &
Some frost last night & every body here & on
the road cutting & Piling Tobacco when I got
home I Sent for Mr Mattherly to Help Kit
Tobacco & they are at in night cutting & Piling
how long Mattherly I dont, they will hardly