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William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878
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1855
| 16 | July | comensed gathering and drawing in |
| 17 | July | finished gathering and drawing in |
| 18 | comensed cutting the wheat hred at man | |
| 19 | very warm and unplesent | |
| 20 | July | rain all day more plesent and all cool |
| 21 | July | four bites cutting with reaper plesent |
| 22 | July | sunday and cool and bresy with cloudy |
| 23 | we have cutt | |
| 24 | July | cutting wheat rain in abundance |
| 25 | July | rain and hot blincks |
| 26 | July | cloudy and rainy sultry no wind |
| 27 | July | we went below to cut with four men rain |
| 28 | July | cutting at home with the reaper plenty of mud sent the men away very warm an sultry |
| 29 | July | sunday dry and plesent and bright |
| 30 | July | finished cuttin at home |
| 31 | July | comensed below with the mashen |
| 1 | August | cutting with great fury lyin down |
| 2 | August | finished cuttin eighteen accker with the help of mister t{illegible} very warm |
| 3 | August | comensed cutting in the field next to the old {cut off} |
| 4 | August | rain tar left us very warm and unplesent |
| 5 | August | cloudy and cool after the rain |
| 6 | August | drawing in at home and cuttin below |
| 7 | August | finished cuttin wheat plesent |
| 8 | August | drawing in dry and plesent |
| 9 | filled the barn chuckk full plesent | |
| 10 | comensed bilding a stack in the filed next {illegible} | |
| 11 | came home put in a field at the road plesent | |
| 12 | August | sundy cloudy and rainy cool |
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