Washing The Sheep

Saturday, May 29, 1852: John F. and Edwin went to help J. M. Glass raise a small barn above the road in the hill. I drive home a young cow and calf from my Rodgers farm that Delmar Rodgers found when looking for her geese. This morning Mr, MacNaughton paid me ten dollars for five pigs.
Tuesday: This forenoon I tended to getting home a young cow from my swamp that had calves and calf dead and cow could not get up and John F. drew the cow home  on a stone boat with his ox team. This afternoon I tended to my lame cow and worked in the garden and towards night I walked over to Aaron Sackett’s and got liberty to wash sheep in a hogshead that had a spout of water running in.
Wednesday: We tended to washing sheep in the highway near Aaron Sackett’s. Geo P. and hired man E. Leonard washed them and John F. tagged them and I tended to keeping the sheep in place after washing. Today my wife and Charlotte rode to Lapum’s, carried butter and bought paper to paper rooms.
Thursday: I helped the women scrape the whitewash off the south room and then my two daughters papered it. An Irish woman helped us. Today we wired our hogs noses and I mended fence around the hog pasture.
Friday: I worked three days on the highway. I had John F. ox team and wagon and drew gravel, John F. worked his tax, Geo P. and hired man worked four days.
Saturday: Today Geo P. paid Edwin Leonard ten dollars for his month’s work and he went home. This afternoon the wife of Aaron Sackett and the wife of Elick Ostrander and the school teacher Miss Mackmary visited us.
Sunday: Today my family went to Hancock to the funeral of Mr Agustus Smith, he was killed by his horses running away, and the wagon went over him.
Wednesday: I went to Barnes Smith’s plaster mill after plaster but the mill was broken. On the way home I called to Squ Wheeler and paid up my commute money for the gate, which was 59 cts, and I called to F. Everett’s store and paid three cts for half a pint high wines.