us to be sure to keep the post well watered. Frank got through at Ben's early as Ben went to Brantford and so Frank borrowed his rack and went down and got eight more bags of cement. He and I went out after tea and loosened the nuts on the mould as John Wess said it would warp if we didn't. Cold nights & hot day.

Friday September 1st

Frank worked at Ben's all day raking (with our rake) and hauling & stacking clover seed. Dad. plowed this forenoon and I went out and took the moulds off our post and deepened the other hole for the brace post. This after noon Dad and I put it in. We made it tall like John Wess said but Dad. and I had a hot argument about it. He was bound that with a stub in the ground and a wire from the top of it to the bottom of the anchor post and a brace from the top of the anchor post to the top of the stub or the same point as the wire went that the anchor post would give more at the top than at the bottom if the stick gave at all in soft ground {Toby has sketched a drawing of his description} and I was bound that it couldn't, if it came at all it had to come at the bottom