we put the bobsleighs away in the barn. I took six more chickens out of the incubator and as two more were dead this morning I think that makes sixty eight I have now They are all under three hens. I cleaned out the machine and set it again right away with 140 eggs. Old Bill Roberts came at last to-day noon after his sow. She seemed perfectly willing to follow him home behind the buggy This after noon Dad. and Frank fixed a fence accross the yard this side of the plum orchard so that he could put his two bee hives out with out the old ram bothering them. They were all flying to-day. We put them out to-night. I worked on my chicken coop. Beautiful day, fairly hot. Lila was over after school to say that a man would be down home to-morrow noon to cut the telegraph wires so that they could fell the locust tree across the track, so they will have to go down.

Tuesday March 27th

The weather turned up side down during the night and has been cloudy, rainy, snowy, windy, muddy and rottenly raw all day. Dad. Frank and the baby went down in the waggon this morning in the midst of one of the heaviest showers to lay low the last of the locusts down home, and in spite of the weather, the man was there to cut the wires and

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