May 5, 1849 - May 19, 1849

1849 May 5th Beding Cotton Patch & Planted
Cotton Watermellon Simblings etc etc
this day & negroes have Holliday after
Picking Plant Beds etc — Henry
come back in a little more than 2½ days

6 cloudy all day & Rained a little

7 Taking down Tobacco, short, this morning
prizing & Hilling cloudy & like for
Rain - a little cool this morning

8 prizing Tobacco & Hilling new ground

9 Coltering & Hilling new ground rained
a little this morning - cloudy & like for Rain

10 cloudy & like for Rain -
Finished yesterday Collering our new ^{both ways} ground
& expect to get done Hilling this day new ground
fine growing weather. preparing for
greens & Irish Potatoes this morning etc
began to Rain in evening & we lacked
a little of finishing the new ground

11th Rained all night & very cool
indeed wind N E, quite cold
children stayed all night at Bro.
Dews at Miss Marthas wedding
Planted out greens yesterday
prizing & steming Tobacco this
morning - Tobacco Plants small
Henry gone to mill cart 7½ Bus. Corn^mealfor
stoped raining about 12 Oclock tho cloudy

19 It has been quite cool & Rainy all the
week, nearly done hilling second yrs Land
went to Lynchg on Tuesday Broke down & pestered
tho not a great deal Mr John Ward lent us
a pr of wheels & we went on & Returned Friday
sold our Tobacco 3.80 3.30 4.55 & $5.90