Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

30th & 31st Augt. worming & succoring Tobacco Machine came here 31st from Mr Lewis’s about 11 oclock & by the time we got a start it commenced Raining, & Rained a good shower we carried the wheat with straw after we discover=ed that it was going to be wet we then wound up & it Rained sure enough till in^nightthe

1st Sept. ground very wet & the machine doing nothing spining etc etc — Began to machine wheat between 1 & 2 oclock in evening till night put up 4 Stacks straw Kit & Mr. Lewis 3 hands come ——

2 Fannie W. & Cate went to Greenfield Jerry Better than he has been for several days

3. began again to Thrash wheat fine day Kit Mr Lewis s 3 Hands & 2 from Mrs Hunts came & we finished & carried the machine to James Whiteheads got done about night 1½ days Thrashing Our crop wheat

4 alse & Ann gone to Mrs Coleman to Pull fodder & its Turned out to be cloudy & a little rainy, succoring & worming Tobacco Henry gone to Mrs Hunt after 10½ Bushels corn making 4 Bbls lent me — Fanned out some wheat to make flour this morning — alse & ann returned at 12

5. worming & succoring & toping Tobacco on Branch & Lot. Henry gone to Glenns Mill 10 Bus. wheat for flour 5½ Bus. corn for meal. Turned cooler. I am going to Mrs McCullocks & Riceville to day —

6 Pulling Blade fodder after morning all hands my wife went to Mrs Colemans

7 alse gone to Mrs Colemans to Pull fodder worming & succoring Tobacco in new ground Fair & cool this morning ⅓ done Pulling^fodder Mr Myers & Henry getting slabs, Tying up fodder This evening.