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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1916

Theobald Toby Barrett 1916 Diary 124.pdf

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the rest of my wheat. We cleaned up the old barn floor and spread the binder canvas down and Dad. thrashed it with a flail. It didn't take nearly so long and we were surprised at how clean we got it. We got the last one done after dinner and I filled up the report. I found the Imperial Amber was the best, Banatka next but with soft straw American Banner next and our own Common mixed poorest as far as yield in lbs. went but it wasn't a good test as the flats never did well and I am going to try it again; our wheat had quite a little ball smut in it but we didn't see any in what came from Guelph, it was all treated.

It was getting on to three o'clock when we got through nd we both felt like a holiday as FRank couldn't help us so we went out to Tommy Jackson's. We found Tommy running around with a broken single tree as some one had brought his waggon and double trees and he had to fix a new one outfit up before he could haul in any more hay or oats. He was rigging up a waggon out of the truck of an old separator but stopped to show me his stuff and he certainly has a pile of it lot of it just

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