for a little while and picked Enah up at the Rectory as Mr. Johnson had coaxed her to go down there instead of down home as she intended and Harry Moon told me where to find her. It was raining when we came out of church and rained quite a shower.

Monday September 25th

Dad. went over to Martin's to thrash this morning and was over there till some time this after noon. They thrashed 800 and some odd bushels. The wheat on his own place went {18?} bushels to the acre but Dad. said it was very dirty with couch grass I went back and rolled and it took me nearly all day to roll the piece but I didn't get a very early start either morning or noon. John Wess came over and borrowed the rolling coulter to try on his plow but I went over this after noon and he said he couldnt work it on his plow. He says it is pretty hard for him to keep from swearing it is just like plowing through loose blocks of ice the way the clods slide around. Mr. Johnson was over here for a few minutes after dinner to bring Enah a book which she dropped last night getting in the buggy in front of his gate. She and the baby went down town this after noon. When I got through rolling I went down to Sam Laws and got his disk drill. Sunny and warmer to-day

Tuesday September 26th

We got our seed on the waggon this morning and all ready to start out to drill it in when it began to rain and so we had to back the waggon and drill in to the shed. We then went over to the barn and threw the hay off that was on the rack and ran the rack out of the barn, cleaned up the floor and started to clean up our own seed as what I got from Burn Ball will only sow part of the field. It cleared up soon after we got started. A little before noon I went over to Martin's to borrow some bags to sack it up as we didn't want to bother putting it in the bin and then taking it out again when we emptied our own bags. They didn't have any bags over there so I got two or three over at Ben. Ivey's and we sacked up the grain we had cleaned but it was noon then so we didn't clean up any more. We went back right after dinner with the seed and drill and Dad. drilled in all of Burn's wheat. The disk drill worked fine cut through everything and covered well. We had it set at 2 bushels to the acre so I guess have about five acres in I didn't stay back all the time but did a few chores and went back about four and waited till six and then helped Dad. out with the drill as it looked like rain. He and I cleaned up some more seed after tea to-night. Milder & cloudy.

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