Saturday July 21st

Dad. plowed all morning and Frank and I hoed and cultivated potatoes. Right after dinner Dad. went back to the gully to bring up Maple Hill Nellie as he noticed this morning that she was going to calve soon. He had hardly got back there when Whit Dixon came over after the steer, so I went back to get him and Dad. and I brought all the cattle up and left Maple Hill Nellie all alone as she was to far gone to move. We got the steer loaded with out much trouble and then went back to Nellie she had moved from up in the curve in the bottom of the hills opposite the mound to way down in the lower half of the gully and calved while we were back there with her. Dad. helped a little. It was a dandy big red and white heifer. We left it back there all night as Nellie is very nervous. Frank raked up the hay this after noon and then came up here to put some more frames in his beehives. Dad. and I when we got through admiring the calf cocked hay till six and then we all three came went after tea and finished cocking just as it got too dark to see. Frank and I went down town to-night and I got my hair cut and about eleven o'clock went down to the swimming hole at the dam with, Carl Coleman, {Kindree?}, Clare Deal, Woodyer and Frank and had a good swim. The I.O.D.E. had a masquerade dance in the pavilion to-night Frank went over to watch it for awhile. Fine and hot all day.

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