Sept 26th Frost again this morning but no damage done. picking Cranberry pippin apples no orders at all today

Sept 27th. Finished picking Duchess & Sheldon pears also last 10 bskt {baskets} tomatoes

Sept 28th. Sowing rye on tomato patch also picking apples. Fine & very warm

Sept 29th Picking Greening apples picked three trees 80 bushels Mrs Smythe buried today very warm weather

Sept 30th Fine & very warm picking Greening apples

Oct 1 warm as summer went to Hamilton for tea.

Oct 2nd Very warm packing apples. picked two barrels Kieffer pears.

Oct 3 warm like Summer picking & packing Greening apples.

Oct 4. Picked 161 bskt {baskets} peaches @ 30¢ 52 bskt {baskets} Grapes 27¢ for Ross Hart. Shipped some Hot Red peppers to Toronto we picked them all green and put in berry shanty, and the weather so warm, they are nearly all red now.

Oct 5 Warm & fine picked & packed 46 barrels Spy apples today. (four of us)

Oct 6. Fine & warm picked last of peaches & 24 blls {barrels} Baldwin apples. Charlotte very sick with {summer or stomach?} complaint since Tuesday Oct 3rd has eaten nothing only water

Oct 7th Picking apples in the morning. packed in barn in the afternoon as it was raining very hard.

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