Dad. plowed the rest of the day. I threw out ditches till noon and spent most of the after noon doing chores. I went down town to-night and stayed down. Cold west wind to-day.

Thursday November 20th

I went to Simcoe on the early car this morning and walked up to Neff's place, he was just getting the car out when I got tere to take his brothe rup to the ira=cjard. It was prertty frosty so I went back with them to his office and waited there till Neff got back. We started on our trip about eight and went to Mr. Knight's at Vanessa where we e=were supposed to meet the Courtland boys. We were there for. along time looking over his dual purpose shorthorns. He has some good milkers and his bull is out of Moore's old Dairymaid but all hte stock was thin. At last when the boys didn't appear we went up to Vanessa and found them all waiting there as they had forgotten the name of the fellowwe were to see. We didn't go back to Knight's as it was late but went in ob=ver to Burtch's at Mt. Pleasant. He has some fine Shrop. ewes and we had two good classes of judging. I saw on eof the rams we shipped him and he gave me a checque for them. VFrom there we went to Brantford & had dinner at our