May 11th Sunday fine and warm

May 12th finished transplanting tomatos and planted 2 ozs cauliflower seed and 4 ozs bush vegetables marrows.

May 13th Watering {illegible} and started whoe strawberries

May 14th Light showers will do a lot of good men clipped horses chew wood and look stranger to get overhauled

May 15th still a few showers hoeing strawberries

May 16th Hoeing strawberrries

May 17th Colder today planting potates and replaning strawberries filling up.

May 18th Sunday cloudy and cold all day.

May 19th Rain all day biggest this spring also very cold. about 40 and 45 all day.

May 20th Clear and little milder. replanting strawberries yet. thousands dead of the first planting, bad roots and guess. warm weather then

May 21st Fine and warm men hoeing strawberries.

May 22 Very warm today hoeing strawberries

May 23rd warm about 90. Started planting out tomatoes.

May 24th a big change very cool today planting out tomatoes.

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