Tuesday, October 4, 1960
Cloudy to Fair. Shower Monday night.
Sowing Rye for Cover Crop
Discing and Harrowing for Cover Crop
Curtis and David removed radiator from 400 Tractor for repairs
Arthur putting up stack rows in his peanut crop
Stacking peanuts in Henry Lyon’s field
Last field of wage peanuts
Stacking with wage labor
Wednesday, October 5, 1960
Fair and warm
Completed stacking all wage peanuts
(Arthur has his four acres to dig)
(Norville has completed his ten acres)
Sowing rye and oats for cover
Fertilize 400 pounds per acre on Norville peanut land to be put in oats
Started installing corn snapper on M tractor
Thursday, October 6, 1960
Fair and Hot
Lewis came home for this night only.
Replaced radiator on 400 tractor (it had been fixed).
Placed corn snapper on M tractor
Disc and harrowed land for oats
Planting oats for cover and for combining
Friday, October 7, 1960
Cloudy to fair and cool
Started picking corn
Planting oats for combining
Completed cover crop. Oats oversowed with rye and wheat
Norville and Turner went to Rocky Mount with tobacco
Saturday, October 8, 1960
Rain all day—Warm
No farm work.
Turner went to Raleigh to see Lewis
I was going to go to Raleigh with Joe Powell to a
football came but we called it off due to bad weather.
Sunday, October 9, 1960
Cloudy and warm
Sarah and I at home.
Curtis went to Durham.
Lift stack (?)
Monday, October 10, 1960
Cloudy and Warm
Rebuilding fence at west side of hog pasture
Cleaning out Hog house
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