August 11, 1875 - August 15, 1875

August 11, 1875 - August 15, 1875
this morning that one of the Horses [?Jerked]
yesterday before the rain & Broke Out 2 cogs
one out of the big wheel & one out of the little one

Augt 11th. Cloudy & like for rain Edmond fixing
up Bridges this morning after I got home last
night Turned out Wyatt to Keep him from drown=
=ing Rained a little to day not much -

12th Rainyed a little this morning weather
moderate Lewis Gilbert works in Ed Dews
place to go after the Doct for [Mima]
Toping Tobacco & mill to day & will get down
Thost ne
Doct Haley came to see Mima to day this evening
& Jimmie are cutting Brush to Cover 2 Plant Beds
Looks a little like rain this evening raining
a little this evening - but very little fell till in night

13 Saml Smith brot home my machine & carried
to Frank Wright to get 2 Cogs put in one in big
wheel & 1 in little wheel Mount Airy. Rained nearly
all night & Raining this morning the wettest
year I think I ever have seen in my life
Edmond finished Toping worming & succoring
over our Tobacco to day about 12 Oclock
cloudy & rain some before 10 Oclock
Rained smart shower in evening near night
It has rained nearly every day for this many days
Best Land of Tobacco drowned & so bad to death
almost some of my little patch of Corn ⅓ around
Edmonds Corn very & some of it not worked but one

14 Put Tobacco stalks on 2 of Plants Beds yesterday
& to day covering them with Brush after
scattering the Tobacco stalks all over them
which we expect to burn over if nothing happens
cloud coming up & beginning to rain again
it Rains It Rains it Rains nearly every day

15. Sunday cloudy & Raining some about 8
Oclock so I did not go to Sunday school
& Keeps cloudy & looks like rain. rained more
or less all day Sunday still cloudy.