and then Frank and I took Harry and Belle and went down and got some more. Frank got his flats while which Emery cut out for him for making bee hive supers. This after noon we took the little chickens out of the incubator and put them up in the ,oft under the four hens, two of which acted as if they would be very good mothers and two were cross but we corneredd the latter up with horse blankets and are hoping they will be all right in the m onring. We only got 60 chicken sout of the incubator whixh was pretty poor but the4 hens only hatched four. We put the unhatched eggs from the hens in the incubator After we got them tended to O took a walk down to Dicky Stevens orchard. Young Awde and Ferris were fishing on the point and ha dthree lu=ittle horned axce and the ice isb't out of th pond at all below Gassey. It has been abright sunny day but windy.

Sunday March 25th