DABuckingham - "1879 page 33

5 Aug Joseph LeFuma Jr. & Lucretia Smith &Anna Slater here today from N.Y.' "They were
brought up from small children among the Shakers in this Society 0They left when arriving
at mature age, "

11 Aug DAB puttying windows of wash house.

21 Aug Latrimouelle hung yesterday. (He had murdered Catherine Dunsbach; this was last
hanging in Albany.)

16 Sept Henry George took 5,000 ears of corn to market.

18 Sept Henry took 25,000 ears of corn to Troy for shipment to NYCity.

20 Sept "A large day's work of corn & tomatoes, work late, have no meeting,, Work pressing -
Sunday tomatoes rotting - the people worried with hard labor. Got off 13 barrels of corn when
dried."

9 Oct "We have undertaken to furnish over 300 sticks of timber, 10 x 10 & 11 , and 8 x 8 , etc.
12 & 13 ft, long" to be delivered at West Albany at $28/per M 0

24 Oct "!n the spring of 1878, in tying up my grape vines (which had been laid down and covered
during the winter) I found 1 had left toomuch 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,
1 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 0
"In the following fall, when harvesting the grapes of this vine, 1 found the old potato
stillthere, full size, with some 40 or more young potatoes, pro[ecting therefrom, and
nearly covering the old one. The young were about the size and color of the Delaware
Grape. These were broken off, many of them, from the old potato, and planted in the
spring of 1879, and as they grew, some resembled potato tops, others threw up a slender,
wiry stalk like a vine, and at each joint of the top grew a small potato, about the size of
of a small plum"

28 Oct Cleaned and barreled 94 bbls. of corn at $12 (per bbl)
22 Nqv Wrru Johnson moved to ChF from 2d Family. Will occupy Tailors Shop and tend engine
in wash house,


6 Dec Farmers are plowing in north field by the Mineral Spring.

7 Dec Day of "general opening of our m.inds - confession." There are 12 men, plus Lewis
Funk the teacher, and 9 boys.