the temperature and it was very strong and from the west I worked with a coat on all day and was not too warm. This morning we shocked up the rest of the oats which were still pretty wet except where the wind & sun had hit them. It was nearly eleven when we gotm through with them but we put off the load of hay that was on the barn floor an d got. aload in before dinner which was about one o'clock. This after noon we finished hauling the hay in three pretty good sized loads. The baby cam eout and rode in on the last load, the promis eof which has kept him out of the fiewld for the past week or two. Frank went down town to-night.

Sunday August 26th