parcel for him in the mail and it proved to be a dandy wrist watch which his friends in Cadillac had sent him. Frank and I went on surveying the fence while Dad. was down town and when he came back he brought the team out and started to plow a ridge along the front road for a fence bottom. They had to stop working at the gas well to-night as they have run out of rope. It has been cool and rather cloudy.

Tuesday May 14th

We have been all day at the fence again to-day and Dad. got the ridge for the fence bottom plowed all the way to the field. It kept Frank and me pretty busy setting stakes and makig sure of the measurements. We grafted a couple of small wild apple trees on the road, just to see what we could do Walt