do much this after noon. I made a couple of legs for the corn horse out of rails and put them in I then took it out to the field and went over to Sam Law's and got our sickle and cut five shocks of the smutnose corn. I started in on it because it looked a little the ripest but I don't know that it really is, up at that far end of the field the grass is nearly as long as the corn so it was a nasty job. I intended to go down to a dance to-night which the girls are getting up for Helen Anderson who is just home for three weeks but I thought maybe I hadn't better so stayed home. Much cooler & cloudy.

Wednesday October 6th

I have spent the day cutting corn and finished cutting the row across the end and one the length of the field over forty shocks. I started about half past eight and quit before five so I think I could cut about fifty a day Dad. cleaned out his ditches this morning and went back and put up the horse from the gully into the back pasture field and went on over to see John Wess for a minute or two. He was cutting his corn, he has about given up the idea of getting his summer fall pea stubble in with wheat. This after noon among othe things he husked a bushel of corn for the pigs Win came over to tea to-night Cool & cloudy all day looks rainy

Thursday October 7th

I cut corn all day and got another long row & nine shocks cut fort-six cut to-day. I quit cutting at half past four and husked four shocks of the smutnose up at the far end of the field wwe thoughtit was more mature thasn the Longfellow but although the stalks seem drier the corn itself I don't think iss Dad. took the plow back ovewe the gully this morning and has been ploughing all day around the big hill. The war is getting more mixed that ever, ther British & Frenxch the latter especually have made considrable advances lately on the western front and taken a lot of the Germans elegant trenches whuch they thought were impregnable and the German drive in Russia has about petered out but it is now cewrtain that Bulgaria has cast in her lot woith the centraklmpowers and ha sbegin aninvasion odf Serbia, and in Greece they are planning a cic=vil war as rthe premier has resigned, he and the people want to keep their treaty with Serbia and lend help in case of Bulgaria's invasion but the King will not fight wiuth his brother-in-law the Kaiser. Frank & I drove down to Ot. Collins to-night and wantesd ot get some ball bearings for his icycle, warmer to-day