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William Beatty Diary, 1880-1883
William Beatty 1880-1883 Diary 13.pdf
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1880
Sept | 1 | Ezra finished drawing the straw in the forenoon he then began to rake where he plowed |
2 | Ezra drew 7 loads of sand for Wallaces house. and 4 for Singelton I helped Revd Mr Mathewsto move to S Johnstons house very warm day | |
3 | Ezra drew 4 loads of sand for Wallace he then rolled where he plowed very hot day I got the clason & silver chaff wheat at the station paid 57 cents as fraight | |
4 | Ezra rolled & then cultivated the wheat ground | |
5 | Revd Mr Garrat preached this morning Mr Matthews at night | |
6 | Ezra cultivated and & then rolled the wheat ground I am not able to anything in bed had a cold chill & dirahaea | |
7 | Ezra |
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8 | Bruces thrashing machin came to day they had to get J Stace to fix it thrashed fall wheat had bushel & bushel s of sping Wheat | |
9 | thrash the grass seed had a bushel of Abs ats & bushel of other oats | |
10 | Ezra |
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11 | Wallace & Ezra fought fire on his place where the GTR set the ground afire I went to Gananoque with 10 bushel of wheat I got a bag of salt Sugar 2 24 oatmeal 46 c tacks 15 c dinner 25 | |
12 | Revd Matthews was at palmerston on mission town Mr Staunton preached at night | |
13 | Ezra scraped the ditch across the south half of west center field | |
14 | Ezra rolled the center field in the forenoon John G{illegible} came this morning to load dung he is to bring it out of the sheepbarn Ezra is drawing in the afternoon with 2 wagons | |
15 | Ezra & {illegible} is at the dung I intend to go to young this afternoon for to get seed wheat | |
16 | I went to young yesterday Stoped {illegible} night went to {rest of line illegible} |
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