1927

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{most likely april, though it seems the author might've written something before, and wrote april over that word} 3rd. Arrived home from San Diego at 8 o'clock this morning.

{alaw?} sick with the measels all the way home. Weather cold + cloudy.

April 4th. still cloudy. Got truck fixed up and got {orw?} trunks. still cloudy April 5th. Raining today {war?} still very peek. went to Hamilton got moln Licenses truck $36 {eav?} $9 Speed Limit on Highways increased today from 25 miles before {now?} 35 miles per hour. April 6th. Have Vietn Rossell 25 Devorpnt st {illegible} transplanting {poppies?} and finished tomatoes. weather {turning?} colder.

Left Page: April 7th. 7 wished 7 {illegible-flanting} 1st Time 72 {sashes?} tomatoes 60 {sashes?} collages 70 {sashes?} peppers.

Apil 8th. gathering brush and digging out old trees {mev? may refer to someone} finished grafting 760 grafts at 54 each $38.60. weather very cold + cloudy. Owen Sound wins junior 61 Canadian Hockey and Varsity {illegible}. Champions of Canada

April 9th. Cool north winds {someones name? Moe letter-oulle} find my big drain blocked + smashed the water running on top of the ground.

April 10th. Sunday {low?} + cold

Right Page: April 11th, Tried to fix drain but no results. too much water. after {dinner?} we watered hot beds.

April 12th . Prunning sweet {eleves?} last years budding a failure very few grew. dug 20 more dead trees out makes abour 50 {in?} all.

April 13th. {finished?} prunning and gathering up {fear?} brush {short line drawn here} weather fair + cool.

April 14th. went to Hamilton this morning bought a horse . 9 years off 142.50 unloading {east?} of manure {tued?} new horse drawiny {could be either a g or a y} manure - draws good but seems very slow

Left Page: April 15th. Finished unloading manure. good friday, cold with easterly winds. April 16th. Finishing brush + wood out of the {shed?} April 17th. Easter Sunday {dune?} + mild {hod? }bells for supper April 18th. Started un-covering strawberries three new started {work?} af noon. John Sick in bed again April 19th. unloaded another car of manure. very warm. so in the shade April 20th. meaning strawberries they look green. but rows light also very weedy.

Right Page: April 21st. uncovering strawberries. cool + cloudy with rain about 4 30 pm. April 22nd very cold some snow flurries still uncovering strawberries April 23rd very cold + a few Snow flurries finshed uncovering strawberries + started on 5th car of manure. (the last one) raised Smithswags to $18 00 April 24th. Just as cold as ever. froze nearly an inch of ice last night. April 25th cold + windy had {oakes?} with {pump?}. fixing drain. April 26th cool + cloudy finished fixing drain rained in the morning.

Left Page: April 27th. made a few more {hot beds?} + planted Cucumbers. (6 oz of perfection) m' 8 sashes. April 28th. Still cool + windy plan planted 48 trees.{refilling?} dead ones coat {looks like an s was crossd out here to become a comma} 33 15 at E.O.{Snulis?} , {Wmina?} , Started transplanting matas {means bushes/shrubs} 36 sashs just + {Best?} done April 29th, Weeding Peppers and planted two bags cobbled Potatoes {eastXI 40 degrees?} April 30th, started putting out Cabbages , got , 10 000 out today , weather fair but cool. May 1st , still cool + cloudy had grandma , {Bonifore?} + Havy rut for the day.

Right Page: May 2nd , june but a cool wind finished Cabbage at noon 15 00 in all , also planted 18 Rows Beans (15 lbs Davis White way) 1 lb pears in one Rows , amd Transplanted tomatus rest of day. May 3rd , Transplanted tomatos had a shower at noon went to hw. La Patruel's funeral , weather very cold. May 4th, showery all morning finished transplating tomatos 150 sashes , half John {Bow?} + half Just + Best 100 plants to the sash, also planted 2 sash- 4oz seed Vegetatbale manure. May 5th , planting strawberries weather cool, ground in good shape, but the plants are poor

Left Page: May 6th