Aug 1857 Su 9 It rained so We could not get home ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Mo 10 It is still so rainy we could not get home W.S. Tucker and myself made a pump for my spring ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Tue 11 We come home got home about 3 oclock I worked at my pump suckor but did not get done ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- We 12 We halled over rails to stack oats and wheet on and halled Wm Winklers oats home and after dinner we commenced halling and stacking oats assisted by Wm Winkler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Thu 13 We halled and stacked oats and wheet assisted by William Winkler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Fri 14 We halled and stacked wheet until dinner assisted by William Winkler we finished after dinner we finished halling our oats and fenced them in assisted by P. E Douthitt William quit at dinner ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Sa 15 We halled rails and fenced our wheet stacks assisted by P. E. Douthitt John topped tobacco after dinner we finished topping over our tobacco

August 1857 Su 16 I staid at home until evening I went to J. W. Barnetts and back again ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Mo 17 We plowed and hoed tobacco until dinner and it rained and I went to G Husks to make a sider trough it rained 2 showers in the evening ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Tue 18 I went and finished our sider press and made some sider John finished plowing tobacco ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- We 19 I helped Wm Winkler cut down and fire logs and hall hay from the meadow ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Thu 20 I made some rakes and we hoed some tobacco and finished laying by and in the evening I went to see J. W Barnett about geting out wheet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Fr 21 We halled rails and made a fence around our wheet yard and I went to Mrs McDaniels to see her cows and came back and made a cow trade with Ephraim McDaniel for one of his cows ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Sa 22 We helped J. W. Barnett hall and stack his wheet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------