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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1915
Toby Barrett 1915 Diary 126.pdf
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| + | We have been thrashing all day and got on faster than expected. We got the old barn all thrashe dout before four o'clock and got moved over to the other barn and got most of then wheat over there thrashedout. We got 268 bushels of wheat at the other barn 200 of which is very little sprouted and 68 bushels not badly, but the worst sprouted is in the big barn and is not running out nearly so fast, There wrere 156 bushels of barley 45 of barley and oats and 8 of oats out of the stack, all the grasin was in excellent shape except the oats and they were sopaking wet as the stack was drenched. If we had got all the fgrain we would have had a bumper turn out. Aunty Alice has been over all day helping Enah and is atying all night, she sorted out her books to-day and gave mea lot ofd them, the old ones, there is nothing I would rather have. Cool & cloudy. | ||
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and rode down to Mr. Flemming's and out to Tupper's to get their help thrashing. Tupper wasn't home yet from the Fair so I left a note for him. It has been a bad day for the fair and their aeroplane which was to have been the chief feature didn't arrive. Word just came the other day that Gordon McCall who enlisted with the second contingent has died of wounds
Friday October 15th
We have been thrashing all day and got on faster than expected. We got the old barn all thrashe dout before four o'clock and got moved over to the other barn and got most of then wheat over there thrashedout. We got 268 bushels of wheat at the other barn 200 of which is very little sprouted and 68 bushels not badly, but the worst sprouted is in the big barn and is not running out nearly so fast, There wrere 156 bushels of barley 45 of barley and oats and 8 of oats out of the stack, all the grasin was in excellent shape except the oats and they were sopaking wet as the stack was drenched. If we had got all the fgrain we would have had a bumper turn out. Aunty Alice has been over all day helping Enah and is atying all night, she sorted out her books to-day and gave mea lot ofd them, the old ones, there is nothing I would rather have. Cool & cloudy.
