in the latters car. They brought Boy over, stone dead and wanted Dad. to see if he could tell what killed him. Huby said he was with him down at Hobbe's boat about a quarter after seven and that was the last he saw him till about a quarter to eight where he found him dead, so he must have died quickly and there was no sign of struggle nor he was not stretched out with his head back like they are when they get strychine neither was there any indication of a blow or that he had been shot; so Dad. couldn't tell what he had got. Huby brought an old sandwich over which he found near him but Dad. didn't think that had anything to do with it. It is too bad as Huby just had him nicely trained and said he wouldn't take a hundred dollars for him. We did all we could in Simcoe (but couldn't get any rock salt nor queen excluders) and got back about two o'clock. We didn't do much after we had our dinner but I blocked up all the holes I could find in the old chicken yard and this after noon & to-night caught about two dozen of the biggest cockrels and shut them in there. Dad. says Hec. Henderson was over to-day as one of the committee they have in town to help the farmers out and urge them to grow more wheat next year Dad. told him we could get on all right and would put in (number obscured} acres of wheat if the weather would let us. Fine but looked rainy {word obscured}