Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1854 June 9th Very cool this morning weeding corn & Plowing at Stony pint etc etc Wed Out Cotton nearly, done

10 - Finished Plowing over corn Peas Cotton & Potatoes & also finished weeding Corn

11 Rained last night & to day again a fine Rain, replanting Tobacco, very much missing Lots 3rd yrs ground & new ground, fine weather took Down fine Tobacco, this season Tobacco plants very much dryed up in Beds tho I hope we have plenty yet —

12 Replanted Tobacco all day & did not quite get done,-

13 Picking Plant Beds gone to Mill 7 Bus Corn, & now prizing fine Tobacco put more Tobacco out to Sun this morning very Hot weather Seasonable, =Fanny White went home yesterday

22 Finished prizing Tobacco began to Cut wheat thined Corn Laying by on fresh field with Plows & Hoes chint Bugs Killing Corn next to wheat in Owens Clearing weeding down Tobacco in fresh ground 2 pretty showers yesterday & this morning we are choping up Lot Hills & cutting off Hills in fresh field Henry Started for Lynchg this morning 2 Hh^d 1 second rate 1 good

23rd Cutting wheat & Rye Mr Harris’s Sam got here about 3 Oclock in evening

24, Cutting wheat,- ^{nearly done}Henry Returned from Lynchg nearly 3 days gone –

28 Laying & finished mountain field Corn Haled up Lot wheat & Rye yesterday Sewed Peas this day in fresh ground