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William Beatty Diary, 1880-1883
William Beatty 1880-1883 Diary 54.pdf
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1882
| May | 18 | Dan worked at the road he Sowed more peas and some wheat the ground is hard with {illegible} and wet dry weather |
| 19 | Dan & Wallace working on the road they finished all but the planting ground Dan rolled & draged the garden & planted a bushel of {illegible} Early Rose and tried to plow on Wallaces place he could not do it it was too wet and rolled on the plow | |
| 20 | Dan drew dung on the field behind the Barn | |
| 21 | Mr Robinson preached this morning Mr Crage at night | |
| 22 | Dan plowed for Wm McNiel he helped him before | |
| 23 | heavy rain last night and this morning we cleaned up 10 bushels of wheat for to take to the mill Dan & Bruces boys took the yearlings out to the shanty this afternoon I planted a bushel of potates that we got of Ab McNiel in the garden a New Kind | |
| 24 | Dan went Gananoque with 10 Bushel of fall wheat and 1 of spring & fall for cracked wheat Jennet and Bissie went with him cold Day | |
| 25 | Dan drew dung to the field back of the barn I took care of the cattle we have them in the stable | |
| 26 | Dan finished dunging the field & plowed a little | |
| 27 | Dan plowed in the forenoon he then shoveled ome furrows out at the road I got the horses shod all round3 new shoes & 5 old ones set I paid McDonald $1.35 one dollar & thirty cents for them & one shoe on Kate that I got on the week before Professer Powter came on the Express | |
| 28 | Professer Powter of Kingston preached at night for us Mr Crage in the morning | |
| 29 | Dan is plowing East of the Barn it is a little warmer | |
| 30 | Dan finished plowing East of the Barn and then marked it out for planting and plowed the headridge southeast of the fall wheat draged it I sowed A milk pan & a half of flax seed on it he gave it one stroke of the drag | |
| 31 | John Gemmel helped me to plant a Bushel of Western corn for cow feed we planted in drills we began next to the Barn the last row & hald our own corn we sowed 9 rows of the Red Surrey carrot & 2 rows {illegible} it rained so that we could not finish |
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