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14th: Showers ot'snow

16th: Thermometer stood 4 below zero at night

17th: Rain, considerable thaw, 20 below zero

21st: some snow

23rd: took a stick of'timber to town 24th: took 37.31 lbs ofoats to Long Creek

25th: Sunday, rain at night

26th: 36.19 lbs of oats to Long Creek 28th: Been to Victoria 8cTyron with

L. Currie

March 1883

1st: Very fine, 2" Snow from the South 4th: Sunday, Preaching at night, did not attend

5th: Cold

6th: Thermometer 10 below zero in the morning ,zero at noon, calm, clear day, Mal putting in a stall in the pm 7th: snow storm this morning, thaw at noon

10th: Snow, hail and rain with a south gale, bleu down Duncan McDonalds’s frame down (Dwelling house)

12th: threshing, hands: Mal, Dougal Tailor, Neil 84 Granger l\1cl’hail in the pm, Donald McDougald 8<Johnny Campbell

14th: Snow from the south

15th: thaw

16th: We been to town A showers of snow

17th: I been to town with hardwood plank

18th: Sunday, 'lhaw

19th: Showers otsnow, fields are getting bare, ln Ch'town oats «/41 potatoes —/ 25 butler—/25, light showers

ofsnow

38

20th: took 6 bush othuckwheat to mill, thaw

21st: heavy rain ending in hail

22nd: Granger McPhail cleaning oats, breaking the lanes in places where the road was through the field, Preaching in the school house, I did not attend. 23rd: Bleak wind, 18 Wild geese have been seen at DeSable, Snow and rain 26th: thawing

27th: Snow going fast, 52 degrees in the shade, travelling done on the fields 28th: thawing, some snow from the

south east.

April 1883

lst: Some snow 2", took 4 bush of buckwheat 8L3 ofwheat to mill, been to Victoria with Donald McDonald 7th: Raderick McKinnon butchered a pig — own use

9th: Sawing wood at Charles McKin— non

10th: Sawing wood at Chap b’chinnon in the pm, Sleying about done, fresh herring in Ch'town market, ice about

all gone.