Tuesday July 16th

Dad. went back this morning and turned out some more hay and Frank and I put some bolts through the reach of the rack as it was cracked and went back for a load about ten o'clock. We just got one load up before dinner but got three up this after noon by working on the old time. It looked very cloudy all day so we didn't turn out any more. Frank went up to Ham's to-night and found out that Ross had made application the Canada Food Board for export licences for our farms so that we won't need to. He also went over to the potato patch and found Alex England helping Henry. They got the loam patch sprayed but didn't have enough spray for the other patch as some of it leaked out. Sultry to-day.

Wednesday July 17th

It sprinkled a little during the night. so that we couldn't do any thing with the hay this morning. It cleared off but looked so threatening that we didn't like to turn out any more but about five o'clock went back and got the load that was turned out. Dad. culti vated corn all the rest of the day. This morning Frank and I mowed away the hay we had in and changed the pulley so that we can