April 11th Ground frozen this morning. cool all day but pretty fair. started work about 10 oclock stuck it out till about 4 oclock trimming cherry trees. April 12th. Milder & partly cloudy. trimming trees all day. Will loose a lot of trees girdled by mice in old Raspberry patch. plum trees 10 year old girdled never saw such large trees done before. some 4 and 5 inchs through. must be 25 girdled all around and 50 more part way April 13th Sunday. Fine in the morning but a few showers in the after noon. April 14th. Fine but a little cool. transplanted 20 sashes sweet peppers & 12 sashes hot peppers. not very good very small plants and very poor catch. all invited to have supper at Geo Hammond's. had a nice time. April 15th. Cool with north & east winds. finished transplanting peppers. 12 sashes more. Bot two ounces Snowball Cauliflower for $6.00 at S.B. went into Ham. to see about Truck License. under new Road regulations we can only get 1 ton License on 34 by 4 1/2 tires. 1 1/2 tons on 35 by 5 inchs