hardly any live ticks. We caught the old ram and Dad while examining him found some puss on his bag and after working it awhile got about a 1/2 cup full of matter out of it. We are afraid he may not be any good another year. When we got through with the sheep we hooked Queen up and Frank and I drove her around the block I went down to the "sheep pasture" for awhile to-night. Fine day. Old Mr. & Mrs. Miller were in to-night to look at John. Mrs. Miller would have bought her but the old man wanted to come down again and try milking her. Tupper was in for a few minutes, he has Fred Misner's cattle shut up in his stable, they have been running on the road lately and getting into everyone's crops, they were in our oats to-day. Tupper took them to pound the other day up to Jim. Waddle's but Jim said he was never sworn in poundkeeper so wouldn't accept them

Tuesday July 3rd

We three and the team have been doing road work all day to-day. They are on the side road between the top of the hill and our corner cleaning and scraping the ditches and piling it in the centre of the road. They expect the road machine to finish the job. It is making an awful mess of the road at present but will probably be good for it in the end. I went down town to-night and we t up to see Huby. Fine and cool.