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(shillings), but that which I used was a
borrowed one, or rather a hired one at 15
pence a day, according to a custom
which I think as good as it is common in
many parts of the country.
April 20th.
Richard working away with the
oxen and hog plow — Charles and I
tearing up the loosened roots, and
casting them off into heaps to be burnt
when dry, spending a good deal of time
also in getting out the oldest of the
stumps, which were sufficiently de-
cayed to be eradicated without digging
round them and stubbing them up,
which we never think of doing, but wait
till they will come out like a ripe
hazelnut from its husk.
April 21st.
Finished about four acres by noon,
sowed it with oats and peas mixed, a
common crop in this country and
profitable for provender for horses or
working oxen, and not amiss for
fattening hogs with; better at any rate
than oats alone.
April 22nd.
Richard finished harrowing in the
oats and peas — Charles and I at the
same work as yesterday, as several roots
were brought to light by the harrow
which we had previously missed.
April 23rd.
Blasting a few large boulders in the
corn land, which had been drilled by
contract at three halfpence an inch, and
drawing them off with the oxen on a
stone drag, a machine made of plank
about three inches thick, split out of a
crooked ash tree and hewed even with a
curve of about six inches in its whole
length (five feet), its breadth being
about two feet and a half, the planks
dowelled together, and a small piece of
scantling pinned on across the ends and
along each side, to keep it together and
to prevent the stones from rolling off.
We made it in about four hours.
April 24th.
Finished getting the stones off,
although we had two of them to blast
over again, or at least portions of them
which were to large to move — hard
work — all went to bed very tired.°
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