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1874 March 6th. Took my 6 Hogs last Killed & pack away in Box in Smok[e] House 3 Midlings 6 Hams 6 Shoulders 3 midlings in Box 2 ps 5 Joles in Box Pack in Hhd 6 Hams 4 Midlings 6 shoulders 1 Midling & 1 Ham =
1874 March 19 Hung up & Smoke the last Hog we Killed this day 5 ps march took it down
April 8th 1874 5 ps Expense Carrying Tobacco to Lynchg Meat 0.62 Meal & Flour Toll $1. Hauling to 0.38 Lynchg
1874 June 3rd Washed Our Bacon suned it 2 days & Packed it away in Box & Hhd in House Smoke
4th Drawing Tobacco Plants & Planting out branch & slip in fresh ground by Corn Still Cloudy & like for Rain Warm 25 Midling Ham & shoulder
1874 May or June Give Jere H Graves 1 Ham Bacon July 1st Give S H Whitehead 1 Ham Bacon
1874 Novr 2 Killed 1 little Beef to day red no horns Weighing 245 Kept one half of it myself Sold Henry Templeton 1 hind quart 61 lbs & Ed Dews 1 fore quart my hind quarter weighed 61 lbs fore quarter 60 lbs 121 lbs
1874 July 1st Martin Smith has been Sick one Whole Week & has been Hunting money to pay his Taxes packing his Tobacco 4 or 5 days more lately lost 7 or 8 days
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The question has been asked of old why Woman was made of one of mans Ribs. answer She was not taken from the head of man lest She Should rule over him, not from the feet of man lest he should trample upon her, but she was taken from his Side, that she might be equal with from him from under his arm that he might Protect her, from near his Heart that might cherish and love her [JWG's signature] J.W.G
1874 Janry 15th Hung up our 4 first Hogs Killed 9th Nov 1873 as follows 8 Midlings 8 Hams & 7 shoulders & 4 Joles 27 ps
Feby 13 Took down the above meat --smoked 7 Hams 7 Shoulders 14 ps 7 midlings 3 Joles all but Joles put up stairs 10 ps " Hung up 6 Hogs Killed 1st Janry 1874 24 ps " 12 Midlings 12 Shoulders 12 Hams 36 ps 6 Joles took down 6 ps 42 ps
1873 Feby 26 Hog Killed this day weighing about 130 lbs salted up 2 midling 2 Hams 2 Shoulders 1 Joles 7 ps in salt
1874 Mar 1 Tobacco striped by Ed Dews in 1874 E D old prize Barn 38 Second rate 20 Geo 84 Good --- 25 Lugs 34 Lugs 30 Entered on Book 10