1850 -29-
August
23rd Cutting Blood Beet & yellow onions.
24th Cut the parsnips & pulled up the stalks.
25th Sabbath. No public meeting on account of the rain.
26th Levi Shaw started this morn for NY City to collect garden seeds & receive pay
for those sold. Took with him to sell brooms, mops & brushes. Cut carrot seed.
27th Howing among the seed onions & threshing & cleaning Early York Cabbage.
Had 28 Ibs. Henry E. took ten bushels of rye & oats to millfor the horses &
brought back a grist grist
28th Threshing & cleaning the Drum Head Cabbage, had 64 1/2. Henry Everts
took James Colver to the depot. Cutting fall onions.
\mis drawing manure on the ground where w
29th
cutting beets, etc.
30th Edward is pulling up beet seed. Mowed the Short Top Radish & howing
cabbages. John W. Webster, Professor washing today.
31st Finished manureing & plowing the parsnip ground. Pulling peas & howing.
September
1st SABBATH DAY. Three hundred spectators attended meeting. Br. Frederick
spake very plainly to them. Freeman Hunt, "Editor of the Merchants Register"
& Frederica Breimer, a Swedish female writer, were there, called here after
meeting.
2nd South wind has blown for three days past. Raining most of the day. Cutting
onion seed, & working in seed shop.
3rd Rained very hard all of last night & stillcontinues. Quite a freshet. So that
we are most of us in the Seed Shop to work. Threshed the Red Dutch Cabbage
had 23 Ibs, Levi Shaw returned today from NY. Elder Richard, Eldress
Antoinette & Jane Knight started forNY about noon.
4th Some of gardners are harvesting wheat. The rest are cutting yellow onions,
carrots & beets.
5th All cutting onions & harvesting wheat. Levi went to the depot.
6th Cutting carrot seed. Gathering tomatoes. Working in shop. Some rain last
night. Levi went to the depot.
7th Cut white onions, mowed all the radish. Levi went twice to depot.
8th SABBATH DAY, A moderate number of spectators.