IMH 74:4 358

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Wednesday, December 15th.

A good deal of a freeze last night and not very much of a thaw to-day. The sun only shone a
short time. The high ridges made by the old Dudley plow86 last summer being frozen made it
fearfully rough. We gathered perhaps 60 bushels of corn to-day, going three times after it. We
went four times the entire length of the field below the "rye-patch" striking it a little west of the
middle and gathering toward Fowler's line. We got up with about 22 bushels in the wagon at
two o'clock, ate dinner, and went back getting ten bushels more. The yield was very good in
quantity, superb in quality.