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John Jardine Sr. Diary, 1872-1879

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{page is a duplicate of pdf 08, John Jardine Journal 1870}

19 Friday MitchelxTheodore xme finished cuting all my oats we got in one load it came up a shower of rain stoped us of getting to do any more
20 Saturday I finished cuting my flax in the [indecipherable] Theodore went to stoney pooint to get some [indecipherable]
21 Sunday I went to church
22 Monday Theodore and I finished binding oats in the barn field and drawed them all in
23 Tuesday Theodore harrowed in the forenoon I bound a few oats in afternoon it was weet
24 Wednesday I went to the poling for the [indecipherable]
[cutoff] Thursday I went to Dunkens for one of the [cutoff]irls I did not get one of them in the after [cutoff]noon Theodore hrnessed I shook hay in the [cutoff]
[cutoff] Friday in the forenoon Theodore harrowed I was looking for a agirl cannot find one i[cutoff] [cutoff]fternoon we drawed in the last of the oats and Theodore finished rolling the orchard field
[cutoff] Saturday Theodore drawed manure to day was looking for a girl all day to day got none
[cutoff] Sunday I went to church to day
[cutoff] Monday Thodore manure I went to Ainslie for 1 baggieI drawed manure in the afternoon
[cutoff]Tuesday Theodore and I drawed manure
[cutoff] Wednesday we drawed manure
September 1870
[cutoff]sday I plowed and Theodore showed his [cutoff] [cutoff]y I plowed in the forenoon and helped for[cutoff] [cutoff]ting thrash afternoon Theodore drawed manure
[cutoff]ursday it is rainy I thrashed the flax

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