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4^th. mo. 1868.

2^nd 6 Bob and Ned Hopkins commenced
picking up stone off of the grass after
dinner commenced shoveling in oats got
in two 2 1/2 acres

3^rd 7 Rain

4^th 8 Mother and Father went to Baltimore
Bob hawled in fodder I helped George Bowen
Nail on rails on a garden fence, in eve I
hawled lumber from the mill.

5^th 9 I went to laurel after 19.00 pounds of
Peruvian guano. George and Bob at the pailings
^{The heifer Molly fresh.}

6^th 10 I went to Washington with a beef cow had
to bring her back Rained all day Mother
returned from Balto

7^th 11 George at work at pailings Bob and self sheled
corn and hawled two saw logs to the mill and brought
the lumber back.

2^nd 13 In the last 24 hours there has been a fall
of fifty [8?] in the thermometer the mercury this
morning being down to twenty three, the ground
covered with snow, took one log to mill on the
sled and two on the wagon. Geo & Evan
at the garden palings
[In margin: cold]

4^th. mo. 1868.

2^nd 6 Bob and Ned Hopkins commenced
picking up stone off of the grass after
dinner commenced shoveling in oats got
in two 2 1/2 acres

3^rd 7 Rain

4^th 8 Mother and Father went to Baltimore
Bob hawled in fodder I helped George Bowen
Nail on rails on a garden fence, in eve I
hawled lumber from the mill.

5^th 9 I went to laurel after 19.00 pounds of
Peruvian guano. George and Bob at the pailings
^{The heifer Molly fresh.}

6^th 10 I went to Washington with a beef cow had
to bring her back Rained all day Mother
returned from Balto

7^th 11 George at work at pailings Bob and self sheled
corn and hawled two saw logs to the mill and brought
the lumber back.

2^nd 13 In the last 24 hours there has been a fall
of fifty [8?] in the thermometer the mercury this
morning being down to twnety three, the ground
covered with snow, took one log to mill on the
sled and two on the wagon. Geo & Evan
at the garden palings
[In margin: cold]