Tuesday I spent the forenoon pulling Morning Glories.
I hived a swarm of bees, or tried to, but they returned to the old hive.
This afternoon I went down and helped Henry (Stephenson) put in the drift wire on the South line of their big pasture, and in the evening drove the cattle down there.
Yesterday I repaired the drift wires on Hexie (Creek) and I think that now our cattle will be at home.
A most disagreeable time as it rained so hard last night that all the drift wires are washed out on the creeks and the fields are smooth as if stroked with a plank.
I have spent the day, or most of it, on the roads helping repair the damage done by the floods on Cedar bridge, and the two bridges on Skunk Creek.
Water is lying all over the bottoms and the sand has been drifted like snow.
Our South Bottom has a number of water holes in it.
We had just got nicely started at tending corn.
Will go at repairing fences in the morning.
The mail man made two trips of his route today but tomorrow, I guess, he will be able to go the full circuit tomorrow.
This has been a very wet day as this surpassed the heaviest rainfall of the season, which has been unusually light.
A fine day but cool threatening rain with a South East wind blowing all day.
The air is dense and the cars make a very loud roaring on the North Western this evening.
(Seven miles away between Scranton and Ralston.)
We were at the (Raccoon) river fishing and had fair success.
This afternoon chopped trees and mowed brush.
Yesterday being decoration, or Memorial day thus duly observed throughout the country.
I finished dragging my corn on this holiday and did some other decorating.
I have been working the roads today.
The weather is fine.
We brot in a litter of young pigs.
This A.M. I finished the corn and in the P.M. we went and brot home the young steer.
Today I finished planting the piece of corn up by the school (Country School, Cedar #8) and began on the NW or Hill Field.
The weather has been quite cool, there having been a light frost last night.
Best flour @$1.00
Corn, shelled, @ 5¢
Hogs, heavy $65/cwt.
The mention of this date causes one to speculate as to what attention this day of all the year- in past years throughout the British Empire receives since the coronation of her (Queen Victoria’s) unworthy son (Edward VII). (May 24th had been observed as Queen Victoria’s Coronation Day.)
One should be Thankful that our National Day is not so easily knocked out and that its origin is of far greater significance.
(Leander Bolton was born a British subject in Canada, but became a Naturalized U.S. Citizen. Canadian relatives may have been complaining that they lost a Holiday, since Edward VII did not have his Coronation until August 9th that year.)
The dearth of last year is not likely to be repeated this year from present indications,
The hay crop will be phenomenally heavy and in the condition of the corn ground is great promise of a heavy corn crop tho the weeds are making a stir among the farmers everywhere.
We enjoyed another heavy rain this evening and the promise is good for another rain.
Corn on the Bottom Fields is up and growing very nicely.
I got three more of the cattle into Henry’s pasture this evening morning and closed up the field in the evening.
Abby and Franklin went to town-Churdan-this evening.
This has been a good growing day.
The almost daily showers and warm breezes make all kinds of vegetation jump.
It has rained a very heavy shower this evening.
I went over to W. Ritchie’s for a load of hay for which I pay @$9.00 per ton.
A warm day with a South wind blowing all day. The corn which I planted last Sat. is coming up.
I have been dragging (pulling a harrow) today.
Was driven out of the field by rain this evening at 5 o’clock.
It rained a light shower last night.
