Tuesday September 13th

We had a very steady run to-day, didn't have to stop at all except to change the table from one side to the other and once we had to wait for Alan to bring a tank of water. We finished up soon after dinner Arthur Pickford and I carried away and got 450 bushels of light oats which was all we looked for but the wheat was rather a disappointment as we only got 156 bushels. It looked like such a fine crop before it was cut that we thought it should have been good for at least 200 but there seemed to be a lot of shrunken wheat in it. We finished up about three o'clock and Dad. & I put the little jag of alfalfa that was on the rack in the barn. Sam. left the engine & machine here for a day or so as he wants to go home & put his wheat in.

Wednesday September 14th

Dad. ploughed all day, he didn't get started very early as it looked like rain but it didn't amount to anything. I took Tim. down to school this morning and went on down to Aunty's with some cream, she got me to go over to Uncle Ward's and get a couple of baskets of grapes for her. I spent most of the rest of the day moving in loose straw from around the stack into the barn and got quite a lot in. It was a beautiful moonlight night to night and Marj. & I went for a walk down to Mrs Battersby's place and sat around for awhile down there on the bank overlooking the pond.

Thursday September 15th

I drove Tim to school this morning took some cream to Aunty Alice and went around to the canning factory to show them an ear of our corn and find out if it was ready to pull. Woodyer hardly looked at it but said it was all right. I picked some ears last night and again this morning and was greatly distressed to find every ear had a kind of worm in them eating around the top of the ear. I asked Woodyer about them but he only said "You've got em too" so I guess they can them along with the corn. As soon as I got home I walked over to Charlie Butler's through Tom's & Mark's place and borrowed his waggon & corn