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William Beatty Diary, 1877-1879
William Beatty Diary, 1877-1879_12.pdf
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1877
June | 1 | very warm day the horses was let out last night for the first time I took the milk this morning & made a hen coop for the young turkeys palnted punking seed at the barn |
2 | I cleaned out the potatos out of the celler in the forenoon I met Mr Nicholson at the station | |
3 | Mr Sliter preached this morning Mr Nicholson at night | |
4 | we sowed the millet on the 3 ridges next the ditch below the old house put the wheel cultivator on A sowed more on the head ridge & East side of the field north of the barn that is in the southeast corner | |
5 | picked stones of the field Northeast of the barn with the waggon drew them to the fence where the sluce ways in the road so as stop the water runing into the field in the spring the ground dry | |
6 | Ad rolled with the New roller it works well he rolled the field northeast of the barn the grubs is cuting off the wheat there | |
7 | I rolled what Ad left of the midle field and the old house field the ground is very dry | |
8 | I went through the potatos in the garden with the cultivator & picked bugs of them | |
rain this morning very much weter | 9 | hoed some of the potatos in the garden Mr W.S. Smith came to night from near Kingston a fine rain |
10 | Mr Smith preached this morning and Mr Oliver at night | |
11 | I hoed some in the garden to day Ad worked | |
12 | on the roads in the village warm day | |
13 | I worked on the roads for Ad with the horses | |
14 | we began to work on the roads & drew gravel out of the foundation of the New English Church Ad had the team Wallace and me worked with the shovel | |
15 | finished our work to day very hot day | |
16 | a fine rain last night & this morning I met Mr Nicholson at the Station Ad drew 3 loads of sand & 1 of stones for F Dean | |
17 | Revd Mr Trumble preached this morning and Mr Nicholson at night |