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William Beatty Diary, 1871-1874
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1872
Nov | 1 | got home from Kingston this afternoon stopped all night at William Jacks Got the yarn all right got 300 of flour times 3 per 100 of cornmeal & Rye * 2 flour in all $12.60 |
2 | top two carrots & put them into pit fine day | |
3 | the Revd Mr Robinson preached in the evening | |
4 | doing the corn stalks they are in very good order considering so much wet weather | |
5 | mended three pair of boots & shoes fine day | |
6 | huge two sticks for the cow stable put them in got the stones leveled ready for the gravel | |
Butter is 90 cents | 7 | do six loads of gravel to the stable & two loads of sand for pee Moore 40 bushel 40 cents time 50 cents |
8 | Drew seven loads of gravel to the stable fine day | |
9 | rided six bushel of peas for seed put them in two barrels got some wood & other chores the Revd Mr Green held his annual Bible meeting in the schoolhouse stopped with us all night | |
10 | I took him Ascot this morning took dinner at Mr parr's the Revd Mr Robinson preached in the school house this morning | |
11 | do 6 loads of gravel to the stable fine day | |
rain | 12 | worked in the stable grounding part of the East End heavy rain all day everything in a swim |
13 | work in the stable got eight bushel of lime from H Pankhurst I finished grouting the east & and boarded part of the side next to the stable | |
rain | 14 | worked at the stable grouted the side next the stable & part of the end & that is all the grout I have rain most of the day |
15 | worked at the bail logs & got them in to the stable & bored part of them very cold wind all day | |
first snow | 16 | worked at the back logs Humphrey young helped me began to snow in the night snowed & stormed most of the day this is the first snow this fall |
17 | no meeting this morning Mr toplan preached at {illegible | |
18 | worked at the Bales Ellen helped at night the in the afternoon we got the Bales fixed so that we got the cows in to night stormed all day |