May 21, 1872 - June 6, 1872

1872 May 31st Nearly finished Beding & Hilling lot
yesterday finishing this morning, then we are going
to Plowing corn in field above Granary at shed
upper end & weeding & Sam gone in his above road
to Neals Plowing & Weeding, clear & quite cool
Planting Simblings Potatoe Slips

June 1st Weeding & Plowing corn sent Ben to Yates
Mill 4 Bus. corn for meal etc Bus. wheat for flour
½ Bb^l corn for Sam for meal, very cool & getting
dry Halled Leaves & put in Stables Tommy & Sam
both done above Granary & road Ben got back from
Mill after 12 oclock Tom plowed Corn by Blk Smith
shop & in Garden etc etc Cloudy & cool my wife
gone to Mr Lewis's Andrew took his Holliday to day
& Lewis & Ben Mr S Mattherly fixed Side wipe
this evening & has been to corn field Since Dinner

June 2nd Rained a little most all day ground tolerable
wet. I went to Sunday school not many met

3rd drawing Tobacco plants will plant Lot first
cloudy & like for rain this morning most
done planting our Lot & finished planting
our flat land on camp & John's Branches
expect to replant fresh ground in morning
still cloudy & cool, Robert Tucker helped us
plant tobacco to day Rained some to day & cloudy
lent Edmond ½ Inch auger & 1 Weeding Hoe

4th Raining this morning Put up rails on fence
by corn till Breakfast then rained harder & We Went
to Striping Tobacco & it rained till near 12 oclock
then cleared off, Ben went after flour at Yates
Balance replanted fresh ground, then striping
Tobacco again fine weather now

5. putting up rails on lot by corn House Shearing
sheep Halled up stack fodder weeding & Harrowing ^corn
clear morning Finished planting & replanting Tobacco &
Finished striping my Tobacco & began on Sams

6 Weeding corn above Granary Mattherly & ^Andrew
Tom Harrowing corn in fresh field, cloudy
putting up rails this morning around corn field