came home this morning and we got his plots of wheat sowed. Frank and I went down to Sam Law's and got eight bushels of wheat and I got nearly half of I sowed bought. I think this is a fair summing up of the doings of the last ten days.

{Toby now resumes his diary}

Friday October 1st

Dad. finished drilling the four acres this morning and harrowed it I had to go over to Sam's and get about a peck more seed to finish the headland. This after noon Dad. Enah & the baby got all ready to go down to the Rural School Fair but the weather got so bad they changed their minds. Dad. gave Queen a good cleaning instead, he is getting her looking & acting petty nicely I got my membership tickets for the fair this morning and expect to go up and enter Queen to-morrow Dad. didn't get the ditches run out in the wheat field yet. It is a pretty small field to put in but I guess to try to put in more now would be foolish I haven't done any thing much all day It drizzled all morning and rained hard all the afternoon and is still raining. East wind. Frank came home from school but went right off again in the rain to go to the Millman's for tea and stay all night with Quint.

Saturday October 2nd

It was too wet to furrow out the field this morning so we just did chores. I spent quite awhile cleaning out the chicken house dropping boards as they haven't been cleaned for a week. I then dressed a couple of posts which I want to put in for a grapevine trellis. Dad. cut the burs around the pasture as we want to turn the sheep in, he also killed and cleaned a couple of old hens. Frank stayed down town all night over at the Millman's but came home before breakfast. Mr. & Mrs. Millman & Orm. came up in the car last night they didn't get here till after ten and Frank said the car was in awful shape. He went back after breakfast to see if Orm would mind taking the car up to Simcoe this after noon but they said it was too wet and muddy so Dad. & I drove up. We went in to see Yeager and he advised us not to show Queen as he said there was no chance of her taking the money as there were two more that he knew of that had been training all summer and could step as high as a tree and then as he said it wasn't going to do her any good in fact she would be far better running out. He says to hang on to everything we have in the shape of horses as they are going to be worth all kinds of money soon. He says they have drained the U.S. of horses and have held the Canadian ones in reserve. We took his advice and didn't enter Queen as