This journal is the record of a local farmer’s activities over a 23-year period. While the farmer’s name is unknown, internal evidence such as people mentioned in the volume place the farm in Greenburgh, probably in Dobbs Ferry. The farmer kept a meticulous account of the crops he planted, harvested and sold, weather conditions, and other data concerning his activities. The pages shown here are his record for 1855. The diary is a valuable source of information about the primary livelihood of many Westchester residents in the mid-19th century.