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               <b>1850</b>                                      -18-
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               April
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               10th  Wed.      Cut some more seed bagsT    C.B. having   finished making all  that were cut.
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               llth  Thur.     Finished cuting all the paper on hand.    At this time cut <b>6000</b> extra  long bags
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                               and  <b>1700</b>0 cabbage size
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               12th  Fri       Continue puting up seeds for  the next  year's stock
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               13th  Sat        Considerable snow   has fallen today.   It has fallen steadily nearly ail day.
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                                Continue  puting up seeds for next  year's stock.
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               14th  Sab        Snowed and blew   all day (nearly); meeting at  home.
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               15th  Mon.      Wind still blowing strong & cold from the North West.      J.R. forward a small
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                               box of seeds to R.  Beech  St. Croix, per R. White.
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               16th  Tues       Another snow   storm last night the ground all covered with  snow  this morning.
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                                Br. Jethro Turner made a visit here today.    John Robe continues printing   bags.
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                                We put up 6 boxes seeds for   Clawson to  send to Troy.
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                17th  Wed.      Continue  printing seed bags and puting  up seeds for  next year.
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                18th  Thur,     Cold weather mercury    19 deg. above zero.    Cleaned and whitewashed the
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                                seed shop.
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                19th  Fri.      Finished cleaning  the Brethrens Shop.   Commenced sorting the    carrots in the
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                                Garden   Root cellar find them very much rotted.     Douglass started on a  journey.
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                20th  Sat.      Drew  the chaff etc. from back of the seed thrashing floor  to the old  hog yard.
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                21st  Sab.      Meeting at  the Meeting House.     First timein several weeks.
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                22nd   Mon.     Clawson starts for the River,   Rain.
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                23d  Tues.      Rainy.   Sorting over the cabbages; they  have  kept very well.
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                24th  Wed.      Nothing very material   today.
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                25th  Thur.     The farmers are drawing manure to    their cornfield; 2 hands are stillworking in
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                                the shop at brushes; the gardeners are thus disposed,   1 shoemaking,   2 drawing
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                                stuffto the compost  heap,  1 digging pestholes in  the milking yard, and 1
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                                spreading sawdust  in the nursery.
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                26th  Fri.      Commenced getting out our yellow     onions.   Our onions have sprouted very
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                                much, to their detriment.    The 1st Garden, southside,   West  end beginning at
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                                the walk/  was ploughed and dragged and 23 rows set out.      2 hands loaded &
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                                spread the onions, 5 set out, 1 covered &    1 ploughed with a new double mould-
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                                board plough, which/    however,  got  injured & had to be put away.    We also
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                                dug up about   1/2 of the parsnips/ which  are not so large as last year's, and
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                                spread some manure    in the South Garden.    The farmers are stillgetting our
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                                 manure.   Theromometer today   over  70.   The onions were set rather  nearer
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                                than commonly (1/2 inch apart     in 3 1/2 ft. rows).
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