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1876 August 9th Finished machining wheat
at Mr. Woodings. Brot machine home last night.
Rained hard in the night this morning
Cloudy this Edmond worming & succering
Tobacco ground too wet to work. I am
complaining. Mr. Wooding sent my [Fam?] home
2 Bus [bushels] wheat for machining about 4 Bus
wheat & a/2 Bushel Rye for machining 12 Bus
& The Total from Jack Jones [& etc] a/2 Bushel Wheat
I sent back to Mr Wooding. I ask [Iv_?] has
my manure fork yet returned to night
10. ^th Edmond Hilling ^up old field tobacco to day
began yesterday. Foggy this morning making 4 in A[ug?]
11. ^th Seeded Turnip patch this morning
Jimmie gone to Millers Mill with Qt'r Bus
Corn for Edmd a/2 Bus wheat wheat for me
a/2 Bus for Edmd, ^{[grinding?] machine} --Cloudy & like for Rain
cloudy nearly all ^day Did ^^{not get} Grinding done at Millers
12 Started to S.' [Strait?] Stone meeting & turned
Over [out?] of the Rain. Raining very pretty
Jimmie. Plowing lot tobacco before Rain
& yesterday evening & Hilling it up. raining
at 11 Oclock This day.
13.^th Rained all night last night & this /^morning
Raining. Edmond Dews gone up to Mr.
Whitehead ground. Very wet now, Peter
gone to his association [too?] winds are ^bad not
^[hetrles?][stormy?]
14.' Rained last night. Done up Yd fence
This morning, worming & [securing?] new ground
Tobacco. & Tossing looks like Rain. This evening
ground very wet this evening.
15th Worming & succer new ground. Tobacco very
wet time about this time. Mr Booker Our
pastor at [Strait?] Stone here last night.
16th Clear pretty morning Jimmie Plowing
up my [mark?] Potatoes for us to gather, 1[h_?]
[& Those?] Plowing Tobacco Weather. Hot Yet.