and I stayed down at Aunty's for dinner and all the after noon. We came home about five and I helped do chores and Marj. got tea as Enah went down to play to-night. Quite a cold breeze all day.

Saturday September 24th

We have been so rushed this last week that I haven't had time or have been too tired to keep the old diary written up so will have to lump the weeks doings and by so doing can just about condense it to "Hauled corn". We have been at it every day but to-day and they wouldn't let us haul to-day as it would mean too big a pile to leave unhusked over Sunday There were two days when we only got down one load a day on account of rain but have hauled two every other day. Enah. Marj & I have been at it pretty steadily picking. Marj. has helped pick every load so far. Aunty Alice came over two days and helped us and got pretty tired. Win came over for a visit one day and we pressed her into the service & Dad

picked quite a lot, but has been trying to get as much work as possible on the wheat ground. He finished ploughing the piece west of the little gully and isn't going to try to get any more than that as I found I couldn't pull a big load out of the field with the little team as Queen wouldn't get down to it and pull like Joe, so I have them been hauking with Harry & Joe & Dad. has been disking & harrowing with Pommers and Queen and once or twice in order to get a real load we put Pommers and harry on the waggon to haul the load up to the road and then changed Pommers for Joe to haul it to the factory and in spirte of the fact That Charlie Butler told me the capacity of the waggon springs was 3000 lbs but that we couldnt overload them with the box we put on 3110 one load but we generally hauled about 2200 and two loads were as small as 1590 and 1640. The corn was coming in to the factory in great quantitys the early part of ther week but not nearly so much to-day., and they hope to finish on Tuesday. The weather has been fine except for a couple of showers. No frost yet.