March 8th. Sunday. mild & cloudy looks like rain. this morning.

March 9th. Sowed our seeds today Peppers 1 oz Neapolitan 1 oz. Stokes. Schells. 4 oz Ruby Giant and about 6 ozs our own hot peppers (16 sashes in all) 1 oz Golden Acre Cabbages 2 sashes 4 ozs Copenhagen Cabbages 6 sashes 2 ozs Bruces First & Best Tomatoes in 3 sashes 1 oz Stokes Bonny Best tomato in 1 1/2 sashes 1 oz. S. Briggs Bonny Best in 1 1/2 sashes. and 6 ozs of John Baer. 16 sashes in all. Pat Boyd. grafting yet. grafted Prunes on about a dozen Monarchs also finished about 20 cherry trees (Sweet) and all the Kieffer pears. 6 Rows Bartletts. 1/2 Row Anjou 2 1/2 Rows Clairgeau looks like a storm again tonight.

March 10th. light shower this morning, fine & warm like Spring rest of day. another thunder Shower after supper. trimming trees.

March 11th. colder today they have had a big blizzard & snow storm in the northwest. trains blocked yesterday. Pat Boyd finished grafting trees cost $60.00

March 12th Clear & cold this morning ground frozen hard.

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