for April as well as writing this and filling up crop reports for the Bureau of Statistics. Dad. went over to Art Quanbury's and helped him shear a sheep. I read and did chores this after noon. Frank cleaned out the drive house and Dad. made a wheelbarrow for Tid. and scraped plaster off the spare room ceiling. Charlie brought the clipping machine back this after noon and said Art. had all his sheep sheared.

Friday May 2nd

It was raining again this morning but cleared off soon and has been very windy all day. We couldn't do any thing on the land or the roof today. Thank finished cleaning out the stable and drive house and dad discreet the rest of the plaster off the spare room ceiling. I took the chickens out of the incubator this morning and had a much bigger heart than I expected and Sue had no accommodation for them. I have 25 under the hearing I got from topper but that is the limit of her capacity and I still have 14 in the machine I tried putting them under the heading with the order chickens but she wouldn't want them so I am going to get a hint from Charlie, quandary, and