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William Beatty Diary, 1880-1883
William Beatty 1880-1883 Diary 8.pdf
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1880
| June | 1 | Ezra & Wallace finished there worked on the roads in the forenoon they the worked at the potato ground |
| little frost in the morning | 2 | Ezra & Wallace & me planted the potatoes where they had them last year in the swamp |
| 3 | the ground is in fine order fine day they planted about an acre of corn there to | |
| 4 | Ezra came here & began to work at the lump ground we picked up 4 loads of stones of it | |
| 5 | plowed draged and ridged up part of it & planted Bisie & Miss Smith came from Kingston in the Boat I met them at Gananoque | |
| 6 | heavy rain last night & this moring Revd Mr Matthews preached this morning Mr Garnet at night | |
| 7 | worked on the roads with the team | |
| 8 | Do Do Do | |
| 9 | Ezra & me worked on the roads this forenoon for him we put in 2 days for him worked at the turnip ground in the afternoon put in 1 rows of horn carrots & 1 row of the Red sumer carrot then 4 rows of White Cilican sugar beet, 2 Mammoth Mangol 2 rows of the Globe Mangol and 15 rows of Rennie premium P.J. Swedes | |
| 10 | sowed the remainder of 2 3/4 lbs Rennies seed it came to 1 row west of the Maple tree Waites Hebrews then some sugar beets Ezra went to road to sow some mangols in the swamp holes | |
| 11 | Ezra finished sowing what seed he had sowed Millet on the rest of hole he came here took some {illegible} out to the road sowed Millet on our piece he took Charley to Mortons shod him that finished our spring work very wam in afternoon | |
| 12 | Rolled part of the Northeast field there was a fine shower that stoped the Rolling Ezra went home | |
| 13 | Heard Mr Garnett preached this morning there was no Meeting at night Mr Matthews was at the assemble in Montreal | |
| 14 | I rolled part of the Northeast field till Ezra came for the horses he went out the road in the forenoon & went out to the shanty in swamp he has a London young man help him |
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