Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1849 march 31st. I went to Mrs Lovelaces Coltering Raking Sewed flax Patch & Sewing Oats, fine day

Aprl 1 A little cloudy but fine weather Bit Had a Bull Calf 29th or 30 march

2nd Red Cow Called Rose had a cow calf this day or night, - fine weather Halling Barn Lugs out of new ground coltering & Raking. Plowing for Oats & sew flat above House ——

3. Henry gone to mill with Large Log for Paling & Hh^ds stairs & ^{off side}Plank to Doct Millers mill, carried 7½ Bus. Corn for meal 3 Bus for chop also 1 Bus for A Neale & a peck for abram Bushing in Oats back of Garden, Raking nearly done, Fed croping little^groundnew Planted ^ButterBeans Snaps & Simblings Still fine weather, & clear

4 Laying off drill corn to Bed Finished sewing Oats about upwards of 30 Bushels - Lila Plowing for Corn

5 Taking middle House good Tobacco, - to prize, down Finished prizing Lugs & put under a Hh^d good Tobacco out of middle Barn Halling out manure on Sweet Potatoe Patch

6 Hilling & Coltering nearly done Hilling little new ground & coltering one way big new ground Plowing for Corn & fixing Sweet Potatoe Patch by prize Barn