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William John "Willy" Little Diary, 1914-1925
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Saturday, May 16
1921
Sept 28th Finished cutting clover for seed, short but well filled.
.. 29 . Helped Simons to fill their silo. White sow had 6 little pigs
. 30 .. A heavy rain in the morning, but the sun came out occasionally in the afternoon and although {codyithers?} was a good crowd at Paris Show and a real good show.
Oct 1st. Finished filling silos for the year, at Simons in the forenoon.
.. 2nd Mr & Mrs {illegible} Howell came over for S.S. and stayed for tea
.. 3rd Helped W. Mc. Pherson to thresh.
.. 5th Edith went up to help Mrs Robertson for the day.
.. 6 .. Drew in clover seed 3 loads. T. Reynolds came to shock up cows
.. 7 .. Started to rain last night and rained almost steady for 24 hrs
.. 8 .. Went to Paris & Brantford with the car, going to Echo Place for dinner
.. 9 .. Visited Presbyterian S.S. in Paris in the afternoon.
.. 10 .. Started to plow out corn stubble.
. 11 .. A heavy rain at noon, started to pick apples in the afternoon
. 12 .. Went to Hartleys to thresh.
. 13 .. Finished our fall threshing 756 bus in all, making overtime for the year the wheat running about 22 bus per acre.
.. 15 .. Annie Hewitt & 4 Gullens came up last night and we started to dig the potatoes, getting in three loads.
16 .. Gordon Griersons & Grandma Little came up for tea.
17 .. Finished the threshings for the year at Simons. Edith and the little folks went over to Clarences for a few days
.. 18 . Helped R. Atkins to dig potatoes for 1 1/2 days.
19 Ollie Meabing came up to help with potatoes