== AUGUST. -8TH MONTH. 1881. == === 1. MONDAY. [213-152] === Took off stones & stumps off summer fallow adn took down old goat house. Afternoon harrowing. Evening Ploughing. Th epods are cut in squale blocks rather rough tooking. Very warm & plough hard to hold. Called on John Duncan. we are to have his orcen & driver no Thrusday if all well. === 2. TUESDAY. [214-151] === Ploughing S. F. all day. very very hot; heat of pail that came but of old pool house. Father to Willie finished mangolds to Carols. === 3. WEDNESDAY. [215-150] === Finished ploughing then harrowing till suppertime. Then made 3 hand spikes for tomorrow. Willie was picking peas. === 4. THURSDAY. [216-149] === Logging all day go tup 24 or 25 heats and oven 1 1/2 acres. We had G. Duncan with ocen G. Morden & Wesley Blover's hired man. We intend the land we have logged for fall or heat if possible to got it in. === 5. FRIDAY. [217-148] === Pulling peas till 4 oclock then caught hroses & put on the rack. Got rapphew & in one load barley when a squall proceeding a thunderstorm came up but it brought no rain. Got in another load & felt 16 stocks they only got a few drops of rain so we took it all in also the fall wheat.