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back and informed me that the inspector was paying them a visit, and they would likely have to work every night for a week, he had his wheel anyway so I didn't wait for him It has been rather cool to-day and looks frosty to-night.

Thursday May 8th

We went out this morning and rsan the ditches in the oat foekd. Then Dad ploughed a ridge along thewest side of the corn foeld, it couldn't be ploughed before on account of the old rails lying there. This after noon we turned the cattle & two collts back the lane. We let the two fillys out in the pasture feld and they & the colts have been hanging around on opposite sides of the lane fence ever since, we managed to get the colts in the box stall to-night.

We went back to the gully to fix fence, but didn't have very good luck. We barricade the gap into the other pasture and then Dad started to dig into the other pasture out a post. that was broken off and while he was prying on the shovel handle le broke it so we had to cobble the rest up by hand as well as we could. Dicky Smith came over to-night to see if we had turned our cattle out yet and I went down town with him to band practice, got home about eleven.IT froze last night but has been sunny & nice to-day.