would have to kill about half of them. He paid me for the old hens he got in July and for some eggs so I got a cheque for $83.1{4?}which I thought wasn't so bad. He gave me $1.20 apiece for the hens & 60 cts a doz for the eggs. I went on down town from there and got some chairs that Aunt Ida had promised to Enah and which were at Aunty's. This after noon Dad. and I had to go and fix a piece of fence that had either blown down or been pushed down between the gully & the new seeding on the wheat stubble and the cattle were all on there. We then took the waggon out and piled on all the loose corn stalks we could. Enah went down to the Cornish's for tea to-night and then to choir practice.

Saturday October 22nd

Dad. went down first thing this morning to get Joe shod. I was supposed to go out to Charlie Quanbury's to thrash at nine o'clock but as Hugh McQueen was coming over with the new stove I had to wait and help lift it in. It is a Doherty and looks like a fine one. I then went over to Charlie's and got there just as they were ready to start