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JUNE 27
Tuesday Good day. cut Rye for [[strikethrough]] Rabbit Tayman. and finished up before dinner. raked up hay over [[?]] field we got from Billingsly Baled hay over their in afternoon. got 204 bales put in stable loft. to Waldorf in morning to get canvas for binder. I went up to Vias, at night, cut hay by old house.

JUNE 28
Wednesday Good day all day. put Baled hay up in the loft in morning. cut hay in front of house before dinner. and raked hay up down where potato patch was, baled hay off of potato patch. got 148 bales, about 6 tons. hot. John Bond & Ralph Bond to see baler work; carried John Bond 1 ton of hay in morning.

June 27--1829--James Smithson died in England, leaving fund for 
         Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
         1878--Game of lacrosse played before Queen Victoria.
         1918--Drawing begun in U.S. selective draft.

June 28--1778--Battle of Monmouth fought in the Revolutionary War.
         1914--Francis Ferdinand of Austria assassinated at Sarajevo, 
         causing crisis that started World War I.
         1919--Treaty of Versailles signed, containing the peace terms 
         ending World War I.

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JUNE 29
Thursday Fair day all day. stored hay away in loft in morning, raked hay up out in front of house and started baleing but rain caught us when we were half done. men cultivated tobacco. over to Merrihart to get tobacco plants I went up to Vias at night, saw Adina May. Mr Via & Mrs. Via. 

JUNE 30
Friday Good day all day, all of us drew tobacco plants over to [[alaf?]] Merriharts & planted them in the afternoon, Gorden Baden ordered 1 ton of hay. We finished baleing in front of the houses. Got got about 5 more thousand hills of Tobacco to plant. Have cut 515 bales of hay so far. men cultivated Tobacco in afternoon.

June 29--1858--Atlantic cable successfully laid in 3rd attempt.
         1880--Island of Tahiti annexed by France.
         1911--Russia launched her first dreadnought battleship.

June 30--1834--Indian Territory (Oklahoma) set aside for Indians.
         1859--Blondin walked tight-rope stretched over Niagara Falls.
         1918--France recognized independence of Czecho-Slovakia.