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Tuesday
the 5 July
1853

Cut oats all day with the usual number
of hands 3 cradles & 3 binders we are
binding it as we cut it some thunder showers
passing but we have no rain not quite so hot
for the last five days as it has been
had green corn out of the garden for dinner

Wednesday
the 6 July

Cut oats with 2 cradles to day and
commenced halling in oats we can hall
one hundred doz at a load no rain yet

Thursday
the 7 July

Cut oats all day with 3 cradles

Friday
the 8 July

Cut oats all day with 3 cradles
my boys get along too slow to please me

Saturday
9 July

Cut oats until noon with 3 cradles
& halled oats with one waggon
took hollow day after dinner
verry hot to day 98 Deg & no rain
our early planted corn is Tasseling and the
tassels are drying I have seen but one silk
yet
Keiran gone to Cheraw SC to sell Bacon

Monday the
11 July

Finished cutting oats halled in
some oats mowed the little meadow in
the cherry orchard plowed up the lot by the
Dry Kill for Turnips & Blue grass
Rained a fine shower at night wet the
ground 2 in deep & revived vegetation verry
much it is the best rain we have had since
the 10th of May but not half a season yet

Tuesday the
12th July

Rained finely this morning for half
an hour the groud is not thoroughly wet but
a fair season sowed in an Acre of Buck-
Wheat near Fosters house on the hill plowed
the grove at Dry Kill & finished thining
corn Set out potatoe Slips it being the
first season we have had that would do for it
since they were large enough