dinner here and then caught all the Danish leghorn pullets and put them in one of the crates Frank brought over the other day from Martin's. When we stopped in home Dad. thought it was too late to go down after coke for him as we had intended so we took the chickens over to Martin and then went down to Bill Langs after some feed for me. We were a long time at both places as we had to take the chickens over to the barn and weigh them and then hunt Chris up to find out what to do with them. They weighed nearly two pounds apiece which was more than I expected after the treatment they have had the last few weeks By the time we had waited for Billy Lang to mix up chicken feed for Fred Kull and then mix some for me and bag up bran it was getting late and as we had to unhook at the farm and I had to hook up to the cutter and load my stuff in it, it was after dark when I got home. Marj. said the coke fire went out twice during the after noon so she is not jubilant.

Tuesday December 29th

I soent most of teh fore noon fixing things out in the cow stable to make it. alittle warmer now tnat the hay in front of them has got so low there is nothing to keep the draught from the north sid eof the barn from them so I cut the