1850 -26-
July
7th SABBATH DAY, Meetings Public & Home.
8th Finished cabbages in the hog lot. Weeding & thinning carrots, parsnips, beets
& celery - gathering turnip seed. Commenced haying.
9th Hoeing beans & squashes etc. North; wed & thinned the rutabagas; set out
cabbage.
10th Hoeing cabbages, cucumbers, rutabagas & beans, N Garden: finished setting
out 2 rows of Savoy Cabbage west side; 1 row east side; and a small patch
south of the lettuce, east side,
llth Finished setting out some Drumhead Cabbage below the milking yard. Hoed
carrots & beans, NG: wed & thinned beets west side. Cultivated & hoed
cucumbers in the North 1st lot.
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12th Pitching over manure, hog lot.
13th do. do, : gathered turnip seed.
14th SABBATH DAY
15th Three of the gardeners turn out to assist in haymaking, viz. John R., Timothy
R, and Charles G. Afternoon rainy, cultivated the yellow seed onions &
commenced hoeing them. Filled out vacant places in the cabbage patches
by transplanting,
16th Finished cutting 17,000 seed bags. Finished hoeing the yellow seed onions.
17th Cultivated the cucumbers where the turnip seed had been taken off & commenced
hoeing them, carried 10 1/2 bushels potatoes up to the Springs, sold them for
3 shillings (37 1/2 cts) per bushel.
18th Finished hoeing cucumbers, hoed the young sage, hoed & wed the Veg. Oyster
& commenced hoeing the Early Scarcity Beet south of pear trees. Rain this
evening.
19th Rainy morning. Not much done in the seed garden, neither in the hay field.
The Brethren have about four loads of hay out that is soaking inthe rain and
will doubtless be considerably injured before it is taken in.
20th Rain, this morning. Engaged putting up seeds in the forenoon, afternoon some
of the gardeners picking raspberries, set out the vacancies in the sage bed with
young plants.
21ss SABBATH DAY. Public meeting at the meeting house quite a large number of
spectators attended. In the afternoon the Elders went to Canaan, staid over
night, the family had meeting at half past 3 o'clock. This morning, Elder
Richard gave us some very singular accounts of the mysterious knocking.*, spirit,