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William Beatty Diary, 1883-1886

William Beatty 1883-1886 Diary 41.pdf

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1884

Oct 14 Ad & Dan dug potatos they cultivated or dug up the {illegible} with a spring cultivator it cut a good many of the long potatos they are small expect first planted David & Vive went away on the Express Watt came at noon
15 Dan finished the potatos Ad is loading Davids lugage in a car he took his horse & a cow that he got from Ad it is the 2 year old that came in lately
16 Dan & Ad plowed the potato ground & picked up some of the small stones brought them up to the Barnyard
17 Dan began to plow in the field below the house the ground is very dry & hard Ad is cleaning up the Barns for the thrashers fine day
18 Dan is plowing Ad is fixing the Barns he making a bin in the New Barn to hold the grain that in it
19 Revd Adam Spencer preached this morning
20 Dan plowed Ad & me fix the {illegible} over the sellerway very dry time
21 Dan is plowing Ad cleaned out some of the ridge ditches north of the house & braced the posts along the road for wire fence I made a slat door for root seller
22 Alf Green came with the Thrashers this morning they started at noon & thrashed the wheat we had bushels the likewise a run of Oats fine day
23 thrashed bushels of Oats they then put the machine into the new barn & the grass peas had bushel the black barley had bushel peas bushe
24 finish the peas this forenoon had bushel we put in some {illegible} the straw
25 Dan plowed front of the house part of the paster
26 the Revd Mr Spencer preached at night {illegible}
27 Dan plowed Ad & me cleaned up 18 bushel of spring wheat & 8 bushel of oats he intends to go to {illegible} Dan is plowing in a field below the house
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29 Do Do
30 Dan finished the field & plowed the garden
31 Ad went to Young with the Grist Dan shovel the furrows that was left in the field below the house in the garden & pulled the turnips {illegible} they are very poor they did not come
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