August 2, 1875 - August 6, 1875

1875 August 2nd ground very wet this morning
Rained in evening Toping all Tobacco all
day chopping along Ditches in new ground
& hand weeding all this day cloudy &
like for rain now little cooler

3rd Rained last evening and again in the
night ground very wet this morning, cant
finish Hilling up my Tobacco Sent
Jimmy to Yates Mill with 1 Bus wheat
for flour as we are Out or nearly So
Ed Toping Tobacco Some is hand weeding
Tobacco etc my Hogs come ^up very regular Pigs too

4th. still cloudy & like for Rain Nannie
starts to Mr Whiteheads & CH this morning
Wednesday I am going with her up to
Mr Farthings to have some shoes made
for Nannie & me this morning rained
some last evening when I was at Mt Airy
I went with Nannie up to Mr Hunts Place
& got Saml Smith Colr^d or Calland to go with
my machine to f[?] Starts tomorrow

5. Cleaned out machine Saml Smith come
& he worked on it till 1 oclock cleaning
etc of it Mr. Owen & 2 hands & 2 Horses
come & we could not get it fixed right
did not run well & we Kept trying till &
did not get more than ½ done our wheat
& it run so badly I stoped it & went after
Booker Fitzgerald to See if he could fixed it
to run good clear pretty morning

6t.h Booker has come to see if he can fixed [it]
it fixed it after So long a time & give up
he could not fix it but moved little thing
& the machine run like a top & we finish
about 10 oclock took up the machine &
we carried it to Mr Thomas Owens to get
out his clear pretty day