Dr. Harrison of Selkirk says that it is recorded in his father's diary of one hundred years ago that we had just such a spring as this and that it rained all summer and nothing was saved of either hay or grain, all stock starving to death in consequence the following winter, so that sounds hopeful. Frank has been over at Jack Martin's all day picking strawberries, he made $1.01. I did chores, weeded out the rest of the rose border, sprinkled the roses with tobacco water which Aunty Alice fixed for me by steeping some of Frank's old homegrown leaves and put in the rest of the day doing nothing. Aunty Alice and Winnie were both over to dinner and Win stayed most of the after noon but Aunty Alice of course couldn't. Nice day.

Friday June 23rd

Frank disked up the sand knoll by the old well again this morning and after dinner Dad ran out eleven furrows and Frank and I planted potatoes. Then Dad. covered them and Frank harrowed them in. Dad. also made a start at plowing the old garden back of the shop. It was very waxy. He hauled out manure out of the two boxstalls and put on the west