August 20 {illegible}

Aug 20 Beautiful day . Pa and I finished pulling peas today Henry is working for John Ballantyne.

21 Binding for Mr Ballantyne in the forenoon and in the PM drew in 6 loads of wheat and it is the last of wheat Picked up 4 pails of plums for to take to the Falls tomorrow

22 Cutting and binding oats out at the point we put up 662 sheaves. It rained like sixty at teatime.

23 Killed a pig in the morning and then onloaded ahead of wheat and then went to cutting oats. we put up 356 making 1015 and there are about 100 more to bind but green It is the last

24 August 1873

Sunday Mr Salomon Edmund preached I went to the station to Sunday S.

25 Drawing and thrashing peas. we got them all in but not all thrashed had to load - Henry is working for Mr Ballantyne I wrote two letters and mailed

26 Finished threshing peas and cleaned them up in the AM Had 271/2 bushel.

Rev Mr Slater and wife are here. Pa went to the Station with two pails of plums

27 Henry went away to see about a school {illegible} I went picking hazelnuts got about a bushel.

28 I went to The Falls with 5 pails of plums but could not sell them. Finished our harvest today