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which (Erie) doesn't produce much more than a quart of milk. Dad started to plow the old garden before dinner we are going to put in potatoes, mangels & turnips there if all's well as it is such a loamy spot, he only got a few rounds done before dinner. At noon he got thinking about the little colt down town and as he knew that it wouldn;tbe properlyloked after dkwn there where there were so many around he thought he would like to have it over here as he hated to think of it dying, so he went over to the Mrtin's and telephoned Walt. and tyold him if the colt wasn't any better and he liked to bring it over here to do so, which he did about four o'clock. He, Bob Rankin & I suppose Jack Davis Yeagers amn & the colt came over in the automobile and Billy Loan led the mare over, she is the gemtlest thing to handle & work around ever lived. They were here fir quite awhile and gave the colt some refrsshments they have to hold it up it o so weak but it is well aparently every other way and is wimnlling ewboough get up but can only flounder around. Dad got up at midnight and fed it, He gave it some whisky & milk but it didn;tlike it much This colt to-gether with old Joe begns to make Barrett's farm look like an informary for afflicted