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William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878
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1854
| 30 | of march | we put in the saw logs into the mill |
| 31 | of march | we tuck a load of things down to patricks |
| 1 | of april | we went to pile the lumber at the mill |
| 2 | of april | |
| 3 | on the third of april we comensed fencing at patricks | |
| 8 | and finished on the fencing on the eight of april | |
| 12 | on the twelf of april we ware boring caps fences | |
| 14 | of april | anty fitchpatric went away on the |
| 15 | of april | we finished fencing on the outside of the farm |
| 17 | of april | we comensed ploughing at patricks |
| 20 | I comensed making a chrn for Joseph Cuningham | |
| 22 | we comenced sewing peas fine growing wether and showers on the twenty first of april first lamb came | |
| 24 | of april | we finished sewing peas |
| 25 | of april | we sewed the barley went for willows to simpson |
| 26 | we went to simpsons for willow finished ploughing | |
| 27 | of april | a snow storm finished a churn |
| 28 | of april | we comensed turning the dung |
| 29 | of april | cool and cloudy wether and flying snow |
| 30 | of april | warm and plesent with a slight groth |
| 1 | fnished turning the dung on the first of may | |
| 2 | of may | we ware (turning) ploughing oats ground |
| 3 | of may | i was framing at the sheep house |
| 4 | of may | was sowing oats at home and finished at |
| 5 | of may | was the fare day in milton cold wether |
| 6 | of may | finished sewing the oats and burley |
| 8 | of may | i was framing at the sheephouse |
| 9 | of may | we went to Jacob chines to the funerl |
| 10 | i went up to the saw mill to fetch a load | |
| 11 | of may | the ground for the potatos and corn |
| 12 | of may | we planted the potatos mangbrustls |
| 13 | of may | we pulled down the old sheep hous |
| 14 | sunday | the fourteenth 1854 |
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