February 16 Hauled manure 25 Planted potatoes 27
Planted first corn—piece on creek. Planted pumpkins & watermelons
March 1 Planted beets 2 Planted peas & radishes 8
Planted bush beans & eschalottes 13 Planted pie mel. yesterday. Planted okra 14 Planted eschalottes,
sugar pumpkin, kershaws 30 Lizzie set out tomatoes
April 5 Planted Butter Beans 20 Prepared 3 rows for sweet potatoes 24 Plowed ground for Madame, for corn. Set out 1 row sweet potatoes 25 Did set out one
row sweet potatoes 26 Set one row potatoes 27 Planted in orchard, corn, okra, beans, hoed
butter beans
May 5 Josh cut bean poles 6 Hauled & stuck bean poles 7 Still at bean poles 8 Finished sticking bean poles 14 Set out potatoes 15 Set out potatoes—we have now 10 rows 16 Josh hoed corn at creek—self potatoes 17
Thinned & hoed Lizzie's corn 31 First roasting ear
June 1 Set out 4 rows potatoes 25 Fixed tomatoes P. M.
July 19 Picked tomatoes 23 Set out 7½ rows potatoes
August 26 Went out in rain & got load pumpkins 27 Sowed turnips
September 7 Planted eschalottes
October No Entry
November 4 Harry began digging potatoes 7 Finished potatoes—40
bushels
December No Entry
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