May 4th. Planting strawberries cold & cloudy.

May 5th weather very cold. still planting strawberries

May 6th. Planting strawberries. weather cold. and some showers.

May 7th. still very cold & cloudy. finished planting strawberries between five and six acres. also planted 15 lbs Golden Wax Beans.

May 8th. Hoeing Black Berry patch. Also sowed Carrots. 2 lbs Seed. sowed at Carrot Onion hole in the drill weather. dry & cold

May 9th. Sowed Sugar Beets 1 lb Seed & 1 Sash Vegetable Marrows about 3 ozs seed also 2 ozs Cauliflowers & late Cabbage seeds. planted 15 Maloney prunes & 5 Clairgeau Pears. filling in dead ones. Frost this morning frozen ice.

May 10th Sunday. a little warmer this morning.

May 11th. Shipped 7 bskts asparagus sold at {blank} saw a few Strawberry blossoms for the first. put about 175 lbs Nitrate on Cabbages also 350 lbs or so on young cherry orchard.

May 12th digging

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