In a message dated 04/11/2001 8:09:18 AM Mountain Daylight Time, DianainDallas@prodigy.net writes: > Now I > wonder what it's time period might be? The time period for this inventory list is 1729 in Stafford Co. VA. OK--some MORE questions: Does anybody know when the tobacco harvest in VA would have been 1729? Fall? This man died AFTER the tobacco had been "harvest and laid up." Also please explain to me what "barrow" means in terms of livestock. I'm a city girl. Karen

>>Does anybody know when the tobacco harvest in VA would have been 1729? Fall? This man died AFTER the tobacco had been "harvest and laid up."<< Tobacco then, as now, would have been harvested in August, Sept. or early Oct.. It must be harvested before the first frost in fall. GLH >>Also please explain to me what "barrow" means in terms of livestock. I'm a city girl.<< A Barrow is a Male Hog.. It can be a young barrow or one which is kept for breeding purposes.. The slang word is "bore hog" .. They can be nutered, and must be, to be used for meat... The female is a Sow.. When a Barrow and Sow "make love" ( I won't go into details) the result is the birth of piglets.. usually four to twelve to a litter.. You are now becoming a country girl.! G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, VA.