Frank and Dad. got five loads of manure out before dinner and two after dinner and finished cleaning out the box stalls. I went out and hoeed the straw berrys and some of the potatoes which are just coming up. Dick and Dess were over to dinner and about three o'clock we hooked up to the waggon and all went down to see Dick off on the 4:30 train for Toronto as he has to report to-morrow to Joe Dyer. Dess, Win Frances & two McBride girls went down to Jarvis with him. Dad. Frank & Enah & Tid came right home after the train went out and Dad. and Frank went out to work in the old garden till tea and Enah went to call on Mrs. {Zealand?}. I went up to see Lyle Morgan and find out what I could about the Dicy Stephen's "Sheep Pasture". but he referrered me to Slaight in Simcoe as he is administrator. Frank sent in his name, age & address to the Military Registrar in Toronto to-day according to the regulations in the proclamation just issued ordering all men over 19 to register. I saw several cars going down the side road bristling with fish poles to-day and there were quite a lot of people in town celebrating The "City of Dover" was also running excursions this afternoon noon. It has been a beautiful day.

Saturday May 25th

Dad. and Frank started to haul out manure this morning and I went over to hoe what potatoes I could find up but about ten o'clock it began to rain so we all had to quit. Enah was out in the old garden too setting out cabbage plants. It didn't rain very hard and Dad. put on an old waterproof and went out and set out the rest of the cabbage plants till noon. I wrote in this and fooled around figuring on the size of a board to paint a sign on for the J.F.I.A. potato patch. Frank made staples for cement posts. This afternoon we decided to dip the sheep and it took the best part of the afternoon noon to get ready. We put Art's flat rack on the barn floor and put the tank in the shed so that we could walk the sheep from the plat form into the tank at the other end of the tank we put the waggon with the tail gate and front end taken out so that the drip would run down into a tub at the far end. We used 3/4 of the pack age of Coopers dipping. powder with 75 gallons of water but should have had 100 gallons to cover the old sheep. We didn't get started till about four o'clock so were late getting through. We dipped the lambs first and gave them all a good soaking It made them beautifully white with a yellowish

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