April 7th. Finished transplanting 1st Time 72 sashes tomatoes 60 sashes cabbages 70 sashes peppers.

Apil 8th. Gathering brush and digging out old trees men finished grafting 760 grafts at 5¢ each $38.00. weather very cold & cloudy. Owen Sound wins Junior OH Canadian Hockey and Varsity senior. Champions of Canada

April 9th. Cool north winds more trouble find my big drain blocked & smashed the water running on top of the ground.

April 10th. Sunday clear & cold.

April 11th, Tried to fix drain but no results. too much water. after dinner we watered hotbeds.

April 12th. Pruning sweet cherries. last years budding a failure very few grew. dug 20 more dead trees out makes about 50 in all.

April 13th Finished pruning and gathering up pear brush. weather fair & cool.

April 14th. went to Hamilton this morning bought a horse. 9 years old $142.50 unloading car of manure tried new horse drawing manure - draws good but seems very slow

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