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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't be properly looked after down 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 Martin's and telephoned Walt. and told 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 man & the colt came over in the automobile and Billy Loan led the mare over, she is the gentlest thing to handle & work around ever lived. They were here for quite awhile and gave the colt some refreshments they have to hold it up it is so weak but it is well aparently every other way and is willing enough get up but can only flounder around.

Dad got up at midnight and fed it. He gave it some whisky & milk but it didn't like it much This colt to-gether with old Joe begins to make Barrett's farm look like an infirmary for afflicted members of the equine race.

This afternoon I wed a few carrots till Dad. yelled ast me to tell me the cattle were in the cover on the north-west side of the gully. I wemt over with some wire & pinchers and found the miscreants were John & Fred's calf, but one wasn't enough to put them back through the hole they gotthrough so I llefy them & Dad 7 I put them vack to-night. Bob. Rankin & Mrs. Rankin drove over to night to have Dad. look at their hiorses feet which I guess are all right. Vyse was over to say that our roller has come but is the wrongkind owing to a mistake in his order, and I suppose will have to be shipped back. e didn't get through till very late to-night. It froze last night and there has been a cold wind all day & it is cold to night.