A Brisk Business In Potatoes

Friday, July 30, 1852: This forenoon I drove Geo P. oxen back onto my Rodgers farm to pasture, and I mended fence where the Scotchman’s cow broke into my meadow, and salted my cattle and sheep. Irish John finished digging my early potatoes. Today John F. went to Pittsfield with 16 bushels potatoes and sold them at one dollar per, which makes in all fifty four bushels potatoes he has sold for me, all at one dollar per bushel and for one half of them he paid me the cash and the other half I am to take the potatoes again 27 bushels, and this evening Geo P. starts for Albany with one horse load of 11 bushels, and Daniel Collins pays his own expenses and fetches half a ton plaster for Geo P.
Saturday: I and John F. and Irish John drew stone off the ground in the young orchard where I had early potatoes and make a place to set the roots of garden strawberries. Today John Merrils came and mixed the mortar and plastered the job that is over head in my kitchen. Henry Campbell went to Pool Hill to Parsons and carried four bushel potatoes for Geo P. at 75 cts per, and this afternoon he carried my two daughters to the widow Amy Moffitt’s on a visit. This evening Geo P. and D. Collins returned from Albany. Today Briggs Eldridge called to my house and I told him I would subscribe for one share 25 dollars in a Union Store in Hancock Village.
Monday: I and Irish John and J. Runnals and Mrs Lynch dug potatoes for John F. Today John F. went to Pittsfield with one horse wagon and carried 16 bushel potatoes and sold them at one dollar per bushel
Tuesday: Tonight old Mr. Aaron Merrils came and got or I paid one dollar and fifty cents cash that I owed his son for a job to lathe and plaster over head in my kitchen.
Wednesday: Today John F. went to Pittsfield with 16  bushels of his potatoes and sold part for one dol per, and part of 75 cts per.