Wednesday April 25th

Dad. and Frank worked both teams all day and Dad. finished drilling the field this morning. They got it harrowed over after the drill and the ditches run out Frank got nearly all over the six acre field west of the old garden with the disks and Dad. got it partly harrowed. I took twenty one chicks out of the little incubator this morning and put them under one of the old hens that was brooding parts of the last batch and gave her bunch to the other three hens. I didn't have a fresh setting hen but that worked all right. I set both incubators again with 220 eggs. I did chores and painted my second chicken coop as it was to windy to do much else. Very windy and cloudy with an intermittent drizzle all after noon. Thunder to-night

Thursday April 26th

It has been too wet to work on the land to-day, there was a heavy thunder storm last night and it has been drizzling every now and then to-day. This morning Frank and I went down in the waggon and got fifty tile for the ditch. I have been digging to drain thenbirder on rhe east sid eof the lawn where I want to set out a hedge. I put