April 7th. Finished transplanting 1st Time 72 sashes tomatoes 60 sashes cabbages 70 sashes peppers.

Apil 8th. Gathering brush and digging out old trees men finished grafting 760 grafts at 54 each $38.00. weather very cold & cloudy. Owen Sound wins Junior 61 Canadian Hockey and Varsity senior. Champions of Canada

April 9th. Cool north winds more trouble find my big drain blocked & smashed the water running on top of the ground.

April 10th. Sunday clear & cold.

April 11th, Tried to fix drain but no results. too much water. after dinner we watered hotbeds.

April 12th . Pruning sweet cherries last years budding a failure very few grew. dug 20 more dead trees out makes about 50 in all.

April 13th Finished pruning and gathering up pear brush. weather fair & cool.

April 14th. went to Hamilton this morning bought a horse. 9 years old $142.50 unloading car {railway car} of manure tried new horse drawing manure - draws good but seems very slow