the patch. Dad. finished fixing the gully fence and went back to John Wesses and borrowed his spud and spoon to dig anchor post holes. This after noon Dad. let the cattle back. When Frank and I got through hauling manure back over the gully. they we hauled a load out to the old garden to put on east of the currant bushes. It was a big load and Frank got stuck going through a wet place so we had to throw part of it off.. He and Dad. started to plow the rest of the old garden and I started to dig anchor post holes anchor post hole, but we quit early so that Frank and I could get started out to notify the J.F.I.A. members of our intention of planting potatoes on Saturday and to invite them out to help. I took Joe and the saddle and went north as far as Butlers and Frank went east on his wheel and the ones we didn't get the others will telephone. All I saw said they would come in the after noon anyway except Willard Butter and he said he couldn't. He and his brother have 160 they are trying to farm as old Nate is not able to work so the doctor told him and the oldest brother has just been drafted. Karl and Fred Coleman were over this morning and offered me $85 if we kept him for two weeks so I let him go. Mary presented us with another clear red heifer calf to-night. This was Dad's & Enah's 12th wedding {Toby made a squiggle and an arrow pointing to this comment in the margin :"Wavy lines denote intense drowsiness"} anniversary so Aunty and Aunty Alice were over to tea. Fine day, not much breeze. Very hot.

Friday May 17th

I went up to Ham Thompson's first thing this morning as Frank said he intended to spray his orchard for secondspray but when I got up there and told him that we wouldn't have time to spray our orchard. he decided that he didn't either so I came home. I sowed clover seed on the three acres by the side road when I got home and then went over to Lorne Myer's to help him get the formalin solution ready and start treating the seed potatoes so as to have some ready to cut tomorrow. Dad. and Frank plowed the rest of the old garden to-day. This after noon we plowed in some potatoes in the sod east of the current bushes. Frank went down town soon after dinner to have his gum lanced where a wisdom tooth is coming and which has been very sore all day. Neff came in about five o'clock and got me to go over to Myer's to help him measure out the plots. He decided we wouldn't have enough seed for and acre

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