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               April
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               1st              Commenced plowing south of the pair trees.      Very pleasent.   Finished sawing
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                                wood;  sowed the hotbed.    Wm.   & E. are pasting bags.
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                2nd             Transplanted the vegetable   oysters. Rainy ail  day.  Two brethren came from
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                                Tyringham Albert   Battle & Richard Van   Duzen.
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                3rd             H went to Canaan Depot with aple trees for    Thorben Albany.    W is making bags.
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                8th             All the gardeners except Wm adigging dich      in old hog lot, preparing it for a
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                                garden, purpose to lay tile,
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                9th             Continue diching.    Sold 3 cows,  one 35,  32, 25.  Took a two year old   colt
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                                at $50 towards  them.
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                10th            On 7th we sat out the yellow   onions, south  side pear trees (black) rows.
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                                Working at dich till noon & then prepaired   a piece n of N.   Garden   for onions etc,
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                11th             Sat out white onions & parsnips 9  1/4 rows former 7 latter,   n of N  Garden,   &
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                                 raked the onion bed N pear    trees.
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                12th             Sowed 29 rows   red, 20 yellow  &  16 white onions & sat out  Black W Radish
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                                 s pear trees, above yellow  onions  & plowed some   in North Garden.
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                13th             SABBATH DAY. About       50 spectators,  180 Br. & Sisters.  Singing meeting P.M.
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                                 Some six Br,  & Sis from Canaan.   Clear  cool wind,
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                14th             22   Clear, but cold  raw wind.   We commenced dragging at      10 o'clock  & marked
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                                 furrows most of the east side of N.  Garden   & sat 75 bushels of red onions,  making
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                                 (blank) rows, 9  of us all.
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                 15th            A  little snowis falling. The gardners went to finish  the onions before  breakfast,
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                                 took tillnine, 36 rows   in all. Most of them the length of the garden.    We then
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                                 spaded the sage bed & drew    in the D Seller   some parsnips to save till May, to
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                                 see if the worms will  injure them.  Also drew the barrels,  baskets from  garden.
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                                 Br. Frederick early for  Hudson.   E. Richard & Eldress Antoinette  go away.
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                 16th            Rained last night E wind.   Some of  the garners sawing stakes for cabbages,
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                                 onions etc.  Levi  is plowing on Perry place.
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                 17th            Some snow   in morning0  We are sharpening stakes & repairing    fence.   The Elders
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                                 returned from Hudson near   noon.   The jury on the Pillow  case did not agree.
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                                 Clawson started for the river with  65 doz. brooms,    Reading meeting eve.,    F.
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                                 James1 letter,  m meeting room.                                           **'
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                                       Journal ends here on last  page in book.
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