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William Beatty Diary, 1877-1879
William Beatty Diary, 1877-1879_09.pdf
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1877
| April | 18 | I fixed the wheel of the wheelbarrow fine day |
| 19 | fine rain last night & most of the day the grass is green this is the first rain we have had this month Ad came out & we cleaned up 25 bushel of oats | |
| 20 | raining still about 10 oclock it snowed so that the ground is all covered white | |
| 21 | Nero killed the two lambs that we had I tied him up & he hung himself we have no dog now | |
| 22 | Revd Mr Freshman preachs this morning & Mr McGillvery at night fine warm day | |
| 23 | Ad plowed in the summer follow it is hardly dry enough yet then he sowed 10 bushel of oats on the southeast quarter of the of th north field fine warm day everything is growing | |
| 24 | I sowed nearly a bushel of Thimothy seed on the same field Ad finished cross draging it this forenoon | |
| 25 | Sowed 15 bushel of oats and 3 bushel of peas in center field East half fine day | |
| 26 | Sowed 1 bushel of wheat in center field next to ditch & 3 1/2 on the soad East side of the first field & 2 bushel of the noraway oats same field | |
| 27 | Ad sowed 7 1/2 bushel of oats in the old house field find day I dug some in the garden | |
| rain | 28 | Billee came from Delta in the night he brought Bessie with him & 50 bushel of oats he helped Ad to harrow in the old house field him and Wallace finished the draging by noon Ad cleaned out the water furrows in the first field & |
| 29 | Revd Mr Ferguson preached in the forenoon & Mr Stewart at night | |
| 30 | Ad plowed in the North field where the summerfallow was he could not do it last fall Mr Ferguson here all night |
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