to be with Dick who stayed down town all night and also to get Joe shod. Frank got the mower in shape to start cutting clover seed and I raked up some more of the lawn and cleaned out the calf pen. We had an early dinner and then. Frank Enah Tid and I walked down to see Dick off on the one o'clock car. After he left Frank and I went up town and got our checks for prize money and then came home. we let the sheep out and Frank went back about four o'clock to start on the clover seed. I did a few chores, read the paper and raked up some more lawn. Dad. Enah and Tid didn't get home till six. Huby came over this after noon with his dog and old gun to look for some ducks and {snipe?}. There were four ducks out in the water hole north of the old garden. He stayed to tea. The war news is about the best yet to-day. The whole Western Front is on the move and the Germans seem to be going back all the way from the Belgian Coast to the Swiss border. Positions along the Hindenburg line that were thought to be impregnable have been smashed and the Canadians are in the out skirts of {Cambria?} and the Belgians under King Albert's personal leadership, French and Americans are all just {?} it up. Cloudy and cold raw wind. Tuesday October 1st Frank cut clover and all day to-day with the little team but didn't finish the field. I dug potatoes this morning and this after noon and went back with Frank to carry a mower knife back and then threw the sods out of some of the ditches in the wheat. Dad. and I also let the ram out with the flock this after noon. Dad. ran out the furrows and ditches in the wheat field to-day. I had a letter to-day from Douglas to tell me he had found a couple of rams that would suit us so I wrote him to-night to tell him we had one. To-day's news says that Bulgaria has completely surrendered to the Allies. Wednesday October 2nd It rained a little during the night so it was too wet to cut clover seed and Frank and I both went over to Lorne Myer's to dig potatoes. Neff was down and Corby, Tige,Tick Nunn, Charlie Stitt and Willie Nix on and Ham Thompson were over there. We got all the Cobblers in the sand patch. dug and put them in Henry Misener's barn. We got about two bags off the plot that was grown from Old Ontario seed and over four bags off each of the other two plots that were