John F. Buys Horse

Wednesday April 19, 1854: Today Geo P. sold his fat young oxen on the foot to Mr. Davis for 108 dollars.
Wednesday April 26: I planted potatoes in the young orchard. Today my first sow had pigs.
Thursday: Today I took my horse and wagon and carried my wife and Geo P.’s wife to Hancock Union Store to trade. My second sow had pigs.
Friday: Quite a rainy day. John F. put Vitriol and saltpeter on his young sheep’s hoofs. Today Geo P. went to the Shakers digging up apple trees and two Irishmen with him. I am quite unwell with a cold. My third sow had pigs.
Saturday: Quite rainy. Geo P. returned from the Shakers about ten o’clock and he packed trees. His two Irishmen and John F. helped him some tie up apple trees. My fourth sow pigged.
Monday: John put up some fence, he tagged his sheep and doctored their feet. Michael the Irishman helped him and they drew the banking from around the house up into the meadow. Today two Mr. Finches from Nassau came and bought 26 bushels potatoes at 75 cts per. Today Geo P. went from the Shakers with a two horse load of apple trees to Pittsfield and Lenox.
Wednesday:  Geo P. went with our two horse team with a load of apple trees and they got started at four o’clock this afternoon to go north into Vermont.
Thursday: today John F. bought a colt of Mr. Moore, he is a young horse not broken, four years old. Mr. Finch came  and paid me 22 dollars 50 cts for 30 bushel potatoes not sorted.
Sunday: I let John F. have 50 dollars and he handed the money to Mr. Moore to the chapel which pays him up for the young horse 150 dollars that John F. bought of Mr. Moore the other day.
Monday: Today John Merrill began to work for me and John F. for 50 dol for three months. John plowed with his young horses for the first time and John Merrils plowed with my young oxen. Today Geo P. returned from Vermont and sold nearly 400 trees.