June 15th & 16th. Fair & some warmer but cool nights. about 50 at six in the mornings Cultivating carrots men hoeing etc

June 17th & 18th. Hoeing & cultivating.

June 19th. Sunday cold East wind & raining all day.

June 20th & 21st cleaning up hot beds. Smith drunk again since Sat. night

June 22nd. Hoeing strawberries fine & warm

June 23rd Weeding carrots. Picked first strawberries 26 x 36 Pint crates Sold at 17¢ & 18¢ Picked two days ahead of last year.

June 24th. Fair & warm Weeding carrots and planted Pickling cukes

June 25th Saturday Picked 46 x 36 pints S Berries by 10.30 in the morning sent to Toronto sold at 40 @ 18¢ 4 @ 17¢ 2 @ 16¢ just done as it started to rain

June 26th. Sunday, fair have a bad cold.

June 27th Picked 51 x 27 SBerries shipped to Toronto

June 28th. getting pretty warm today no picking

June 29th. Berrie price all shot in Toronto only 15¢ qt. sent 52 crates to Jam Factory sold bal 40¢ crates at $400 {$4.00} crate. weather extremely hot. cooking the berries nearly

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