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10th Month 1868

patch in A orchard - Asa [borrowed?]
24 Bus E G Potatoes & bought 7 Bus
small ones at 15 c less than to days
price in town

3 day 6 Bob & Henry hauling out manure with
Asa's oxen - Mary & I went to Schofields
after din - Ben had to leave 7
Bags large & 1 bag small potatoes at
Mark Cipells as he could not sell

4 " 7 I helped Wm Lea move his wagon
house with Henry D Ben & Bob & Bob
getting out potatoes - finished the
Goodrich & comd the [Buckeys?]

5 " 8 Ben Bob Bob Henry & self getting out
potatoes several showers cleared off
cold from West -

6 " 9 Ther 42 [degrees] this morn with a slight
dust of frost on plowed ground
Same force with the two Cuffs at
the potatoes

7 " 10 Same force at potatoes Ben/[Galh?]
Heifer May to Schofields

2 " 12 Same force at potatoes Mary &
I went to Stanmore etc

3 " 13 Same force at potatoes, finished
plowing, harrowing & half of the cross
harrowing; broke up the east end
of the field as there was too much of
a sod on it for the potato [plan?]
very few potatoes there -