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Mr James Cameron Island

2nd of April 1885 East Wind Turned stormy snowing hailing Drifting Blustery had 15 pails of sap about 5 Quarts of Syrup Froze hard Last night Teams crofsing the 2 Roads ice seems to be good yet stormy to night

3rd Good Friday High E Wind snowing Blowing drifting Great Banks of snow

4th Lily Calved Stormy E Wind hailing snowing Drifting shovelling snow every place Blocked with Banks of snow Kind of soft

5th Easter Sunday wamr sun shining sap run some snow Deep

6th Tapping some

7th Boiling

8th made 3 1/2 Gallons of Syrup Hot sun Robins Pewit Blackbirds Grass Bird Rained heavy Put out some Manure and some Loads of snow out of the yard

9th 23 Years Married to Day Randolph crofsed to PO got a Lot of Papers from Dan Bought 2 Packages of Prize Tea he got 2 Pitchers with them 2 spools of Thread 10 paid all this Breaking the Roads as they are Blocked up Boiled 1/2 Gallon of syrup

10th Fine cutting sumacks for sugar Bush Wood on the P Point

11th one of the yearling calves Dead got Fast in the stall Fine crust good boiling 40 pails of sap E Wind cutting Brush for the cows

12th Low Sunday in the Bush Made Syrup

13th Boiling in the Bush

14 made 40 lbs

15 made 30 lbs seen 2 Indians crofsed from Chrisitees Island over to the north shore

16th Randolph sick Leander and I in the Bush Boiling the Girls gathered sap

17th Mr J McDougall here and Alexander Lissy and Lissy Rose The Teacher he found the ice over 3 Foot Thick in the channel he went Back and Set the Team after the Girls as there was a Good deal of water on the ice Got the Globe of the 20th Sent Mrs McDougall a 2 lb cake and Bottle of Syrup Stanley in the Bush

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Mr James Cameron Island

1885