and Dad. harrowed on the alsike stubble. Mrs. McBride was here all day. Dave Waddle & a man named Hawkins drove over after dinner and had a little shooting. Sunny quite hot and flies very bad.

Thursday September 17th

The threshers arrived this morning but didn't get started quite early enough to finish before dinner, but it only took about half an hour after. We only had 145 bushels of oats, of course it was only off one field but we will have to be economical with them to make them last.There were 208 bushels of wheat or about 26 or 7 bushels to the acre, but it was a lovely sample and clean. Sam. Law said it was the best he had thrashed this year. Most of it around here is shrivelled.

This afternoon I took the team and went out and disked on the buck wheat ground. The rest stayed up here to clean up around the barn. Dad. said Jonas came over about five o'clock after he had got dressed up from thrashing and he was crying like a baby. He poured forth an awful tale of woe to Dad. & Huby saying that Myers was robbing him. He had just come and taken his canning factory ticket. I suppose Jonas owes Myers everything as he has been hiring men all summer for Jonas, but Jonas doesn't understand it.

The flower show is on to-night and Jonas had taken a lot of vegetables down so Dad. told him to forget his troubles and go and take a prize on his onions, so about tea time he came across the fields in great excitement waving his hat and aparently as happy as a king and yelled over to them that he had got three first prizes on his onions and a second on his tomatoes. Enah and I drove down to-night to go to the show and Jonas was there to show us his prizewinning stuff. The also had an orchestra consisting of Sany Lawson, Chris Fairchilds and Frank Mar. George Thompson had his Victrola there. I don't know who was the proudest one there, Jonas, Sandy or George Thompson. Another hot day but cold at night

Friday September 18th

I disked all dat t-day on the buck wheat ground I got over the part I didn't et done yesterday lengthways this morning and over most of it crossways this afternoon. We want to sow it tomorrow if we can. Dad. went down this morning and got Sam Laws team Ben & Ned. He told Dad. yesterday he cluld have them if he wanted them. so Dad. has been plowing all day. He had to quit though about fice o'clock as the ground