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William Beatty Diary, 1883-1886
William Beatty 1883-1886 Diary 41.pdf
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1884
| Oct | 14 | Ad & Dan dug potatos they cultivated or dug up the {illegible} with a spring cultivator it cut a good many of the long potatos they are small expect first planted David & Vive went away on the Express Watt came at noon |
| 15 | Dan finished the potatos Ad is loading Davids lugage in a car he took his horse & a cow that he got from Ad it is the 2 year old that came in lately | |
| 16 | Dan & Ad plowed the potato ground & picked up some of the small stones brought them up to the Barnyard | |
| 17 | Dan began to plow in the field below the house the ground is very dry & hard Ad is cleaning up the Barns for the thrashers fine day | |
| 18 | Dan is plowing Ad is fixing the Barns he making a bin in the New Barn to hold the grain that in it | |
| 19 | Revd Adam Spencer preached this morning | |
| 20 | Dan plowed Ad & me fix the {illegible} over the sellerway very dry time | |
| 21 | Dan is plowing Ad cleaned out some of the ridge ditches north of the house & braced the posts along the road for wire fence I made a slat door for root seller | |
| 22 | Alf Green came with the thrashers this morning they started at noon & thrashed the wheat we had bushels the likewise a run of Oats fine day | |
| 23 | thrashed bushels of oats they then put the machine into the new barn & the grass peas had bushel the black barley had bushel peas bushel | |
| 24 | finish the peas this forenoon had bushel we put in some {illegible} the straw | |
| 25 | Dan plowed front of the house part of the paster | |
| 26 | the Revd Mr Spencer preached at night {illegible} | |
| 27 | Dan plowed Ad & me cleaned up 18 bushel of spring wheat & 8 bushel of oats he intends to go to {illegible} | |
| 28 | Dan is plowing in a field below the house | |
| 29 | Do Do | |
| 30 | Dan finished the field & plowed the garden | |
| 31 | Ad went to Young with the grist Dan shoveled the furrows that was left in the field below the house in the garden & pulled the turnips {illegible} they are very poor they did not come |
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