July 1883
1 July 1883 • Sunday
Watering corn all day.
2 July 1883 • Monday
Took the rake down to the lower meadow, watered the lot and replanted sweet corn at B F K’s.
3 July 1883 • Tuesday
Planted beans 1/2 day and hauled a load of hay from the lower meadow
4 July 1883 • Wednesday
Went to the grove at in Thos. Smith’s pasture in fornoon. [p. 34] and from there to J. D. Woods and helped put out the fire his house being on fire. Went down to the lower meadow and raked some hay, took Alice & baby with me and then went for a ride.
5 July 1883 • Thursday
Hauled 3 loads hay from Frank’s old field, two to Frank & one for me.
6 July 1883 • Friday
Hauled 3 loads of hay to Franks One from the old meadow and two from the lower meadow.
7 July 1883 • Saturday
Hauled two loads of hay from the lower meadow, with Madam & Lady, one load to B. F. K. and one to me. Borrowed of B. F. K. $10.00
8 July 1883 • Sunday
Remained at home in evening fornoon, went to meeting & riding in afternoon and wrote steve in evening
9 July 1883 • Monday
Hauled 3 loads of hay from the lower meadow, two for Frank and one for me and repaired hayrack.
10 July 1883 • Tuesday
Hauled two loads hay from lower meadow. one to me & one to B. F. K.
11 July 1883 • Wednesday
Hauled three loads from the lower meadow one for Frank & two for me.
12 July 1883 • Thursday
Hauled three loads of hay from the lower meadow to me with Madam and Lady.
13 July 1883 • Friday
Hauld 3 loads of B F K’s lower meadow for me which finished up his piece. Went over to Nervas in evening. [p. 35]
14 July 1883 • Saturday
Hauled 3 loads of hay off Alice Ann’s meadow
15 July 1883 • Sunday
Went up to Aunt Alice’s in a buggy, and called at lot on bench.
16 July 1883 • Monday
Hauled 3 loads of hay from Alice’s meadow with Madam & Lady.
17 July 1883 • Tuesday
Hauled two loads of hay from Alices meadow with Madam & Lady
18 July 1883 • Wednesday
Hauled one load of hay from the lower meadow and waited on Nerva <in> the afternoon and evening. Baby born at 9.50 O’clock.
19 July 1883 • Thursday
Hauled 3 loa’ds of hay from the lower meadow. Went over to Nerva’s in the morning.
20 July 1883 • Friday
Hauled 3 loads of hay from the lower meadow and roped the north stack
21 July 1883 • Saturday
raked off the two stacks and topped one out and roped it and hauled too loads of hay from the Lower meadow
22 July 1883 • Sunday
Visited with Nerva in fornoon, went to meeting in afternoon & up to the lot on bench.
23 July 1883 • Monday
Hauled two loads of hay from lower meadow and watered its lot.
24 July 1883 • Tuesday
worked over to B F Ks field weeding potatoes and making hay. [p. 36]
25 July 1883 • Wednesday
hauled 3 loads of hay in to B F K’s barn in forenoon & weeded in the potatoes in the afternoon.
26 July 1883 • Thursday
weeded in the potatoes in the fornoon and hauled 3 loads of hay in the afternoon.
27 July 1883 • Friday
Cut bound & shocked 4⅓ acres of wheat
28 July 1883 • Saturday
hauled hay in fornoon and fixed the pasture fence in the after noon. Took Alice & Mamie riding in the evening.
29 July 1883 • Sunday
Went over to B. F. K’s, to see to the water, spent the day at home & hauled hay went riding in evening
30 July 1883 • Monday
hauled hay all day off B. F. K’s meadow.
31 July 1883 • Tuesday
hauled 5 loads of hay from B. F. K’s. meadow.