IMH 75:2 204

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Tuesday, May 10th.

It rained pretty hard for awhile between four and five
o'clock in the morning but did not give us any more. Before
nine o'clock I went to plowing again where I quit yesterday.
Plowed till noon when I finished that "land:' After dinner I
finished cutting stalks on this side of the creek and began
plowing a land in the same field on the side next to
Fowler's Mr. Daniel Kirk(89) spent most of the forenoon picking
out half a bushel of seed corn from our crib. He was very
particular. Father staid at home or not far from it all day and
was occupied in painting and otherwise fixing the hack most of
the time. Alvin helped him and also helped Mother wash. The
"trial survey" for a new railroad from Martinsville to Terre
Haute passed through here to-day.(90)Their line of stakes cut the
clover patch in two about the middle, crosses the creek a few
feet below the ford and goes some distance south of the middle
of John's field. The surveyors have been in the neighborhood
for three or four days. John plowed.

Teaching note: When one plows a fieldyou can only plow you set off a smaller section
to plow called a land so you do't have to go around the entire field. from one side to the other.

I do not think the railroad ever made itto completion-- at least it is not on the 1909 map of
Morgan County.