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Buck- wheat being a crop very much spoken 

 of, I set off to plough three acres and a half 

 for that purpose. The weather was very 

 hot, and the land dry ; so that I found it 

 stiff work. I completed the ploughing, 

 however, and my sons harrowed it, and by 

 these means we got the buck-wheat sown. 

 As soon as this was done, it was time to sow 

 turnips. I then began with my sons to 

 drill the land, lead manure, and put in the 

 seed. We could, with very hard work, sow 

 only twenty drills a day ; which took five 

 cart-loads of manure, besides having the 

 drills to make, the seed to sow and harrow 

 in, and even all the water to draw out of a 

 well for our cows and horses* twice a day : 

 for there was no water on the farm but in 

 the well close to the house, so that we had 

 at all times between twenty and thirty head 

 of cattle to fetch out of different pastures and 

 water there. These employments brought 

 us to the time for mowing our hay. 



I had forgot to mention that we had 

 cocked ten acres of clover- and leaded it, 



