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<table>

<tr>
  <td>15</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>we trashed four hundert bushels of wheat</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>16</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>took a load out to proud foot</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>17</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>cutting the clover seed milton show</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>18</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>drawing out wheat plesent wether</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>19</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>finished moying the clover warm and plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>20</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>comensed drawing in the clover seed plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>21</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>October cloudy plesent withe drying up sunday</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>22</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>comensed to digg the potatos frosty</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>23</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>out with a load of wheat snow storm</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>24</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>inplesent wether for digging potatos</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>25</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>comensed to plough sodd cold and unplesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>26</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>helping linsey to trash stormy and unplesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>27</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>helping linsey to trash barley unplesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>28</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>rainy and unplesent sunday</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>29</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>went to tronto with barley got a{illegible}</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>30</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>ploughing more plesent frosts at night</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>31</td>
  <td>October</td>
  <td>making a spindle for the trashing nas{cut off}</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>November</td>
  <td>spredding dung and ploughing sodd</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>November</td>
  <td>fare day in milton cool and plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>3</td>
  <td>November</td>
  <td>spredding dung and ploughing sodd</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>4</td>
  <td>November</td>
  <td>sunday a hard frost plesent leves of t{illegible}</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>5</td>
  <td>November</td>
  <td>trashing for andy orr</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>6</td>
  <td>November</td>
  <td>trashing plesent wether</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>7</td>
  <td>November</td>
  <td>rain broak down the horsepwer</td>
 </tr>

<table>

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15	October	we trashed four hundert bushels of wheat
16	October	took a load out to proud foot
17	October	cutting the clover seed milton show
18	October	drawing out wheat plesent wether
19	October	finished moying the clover warm and plesent
20	October	comensed drawing in the clover seed plesent
21	October	October cloudy plesent withe drying up sunday
22	October	comensed to digg the potatos frosty
23	October	out with a load of wheat snow storm
24	October	inplesent wether for digging potatos
25	October	comensed to plough sodd cold and unplesent
26	October	helping linsey to trash stormy and unplesent
27	October	helping linsey to trash barley unplesent
28	October	rainy and unplesent sunday
29	October	went to tronto with barley got a{illegible}
30	October	ploughing more plesent frosts at night
31	October	making a spindle for the trashing nas{cut off}
1	November	spredding dung and ploughing sodd
2	November	fare day in milton cool and plesent
3	November	spredding dung and ploughing sodd
4	November	sunday a hard frost plesent leves of t{illegible}
5	November	trashing for andy orr
6	November	trashing plesent wether
7	November	rain broak down the horsepwer
		1855

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