Mon 30 cool wind rather cold from the north east After dinner I started to Wallaces after Plums paid 50 for 12 qts & 40 cts for the rooster. They brought me home befor I started I found poor old blue hen dead & time some others mopeing around with dark heads I caught the worst & put them by them selves I have nothing to give them Teu 31 Will went to Port to Mill took 2 bushels for us 3 of the 5 hens dead & another under the wood pile that makes {# cut off} I sent Marguerite early in the morning to Chippewa after medicine castor oil eclectric oil. Poultry food with the 25 I borrrowed from Paul. I got a bottle turpentine I churned just keeps me busy with the sick hens doseing & so many drooping & the turkey three of them getting doctored.