Albany to see about taking some shirts to make. (PAB )
13 July 1874 The two eldresses got a shirt together but it did
not seem right.
14 July 1874 C. Copley took them back to Albany.
15 July 1874 C. Copley went to Albany and brought out "one of
Page's best shirt makers, Lucia Johnson, to show the Shakers how
to put them together." (PAB)
17 July 1874 "All that can go to the shop to work on shirts."
10 June 1875 Sisters in Office had not been able to use their
range for 4 months because of lack of water-leaks in the aque-
ductft' system. But now the hired men have dug up the old logs
and pfput in new ones and there is finally water again .
Sisters in the Office are Lucy Fairchild, Samfnantha Bowie, Ruth
Green, and Barbara Hooper. (PAB)
12 Aug 1875 Elders and trustees meet to consider buying about
500 acres "about or near the New York Central Railroad on the d\e Plains."
30 Mar 1876 Sisters refuse to milk any more. "In fact, have
not done it since last fall." (DAB)
22 Apr 1876 A gentleman from Brazil came to look at baskets.
Placed an order for $248.50 of them. Taken to Albany to be
shipped. (PAB)
29 May 1876 Part of 500 acre farm in Guildlerland (Pine
Plains) to be rented for 5 years to the "Sharp Shooters . " (DAB)
4 July 1876 "The family generally stopped work and went to
picnic. We have dinner in the woods. SF make some ice cream .
all enjoy it very much." (Centennial of Decl . of Indep.) {PAB)
5 June 1877 Tub is put by the Office for horses to drink from.
New oil cloth is put down in Office front hall and new stair car-
pets on visitors ' stairs . (PAB)
8 July 1877 (Sun.) Police came today for the first time to keep
order at the Meeting House.
THE PAB JOURNALS END WITH DEC. 31, 1878.
20 Sept 1879 (Sun.) "A large day's work of corn & tomatoes , work
late, HAVE NO MEETING. Work pressing - tomatoes rotting - the
people worried with hard labor. Got off 13 barrels of dried
corn.
24 Oct 1879 "In the spring of 1878, in tying up my grape vines
(which had been laid down and covered during the winter) I found
I had left too much of the old vine of a certain Delaware grape.
Consequently I there and then cut a large branch off the vine and,
to prevent its bleeding, I put on a potato tightly pressed. The
vine was trained upon the east side of a brick building, bringing
the potato directly under the window sill, about five feet from
the ground, where no rains ever reached it, and, of course, all
the nourishment of the potato must have come from the vine of the
grape . In the following fall , when harvesting the grapes of this
vine, I found the old potato still there, full size, with some 40
or more young potatoes, projecting therefrom, and nearly covering
the old one . The young were about the size and color of the Del-
aware grape. These were broken of f ; many, of them, from the old
potato , and planted injthe spring of 1 87 9 , and as they grew, some
resembled pot^ato tops , mothers threw up a slender , wiry stalk
like a vine, and at each joint of the top grew a small potato,
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about the size of a small plum." (DAB)

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