Nov 18th Cold, some snow on ground finished ploughing

Nov 19th Sunday. cloudy & cool showery at night.

Nov 20th 21st 22nd & 23rd &. cloudy & mild with some showers fixing & putting in tile drains

Nov 24th. Colder & raining today.

Nov 25 Fine. getting hotbed earth piled up.

Nov 26. Putting in more tile raining in the afternoon & evening.

Nov 27 Sunday cloudy.

Nov 28th. more draining. & rained again all afternoon & night.

Nov 29th. Fine more tiles in

Nov 30 A thunder storm in the night & more rain all day unloaded first car of manure this fall. two weeks late for 1st car.

Dec 1st. Colder some snow on the ground, men digging out trees.

Dec 2nd & 3rd Unloading 2nd car manure, weather cool.

Dec 4th Sunday fine but cool.

Dec 5th 6th 7th. Fine & milder but ground frozen covering strawberries

Dec 8th. Turned colder in the night and blowing a gale from the West Temperature down to 14 this morning reports say as low as 38 below zero in the west

Dec 9th. Clear cold & frosty 5 above zero this a.m.

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