June 9th, 1894 thru June 10th, 1894

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Saturday, June 9th, 1894 - Bert  and Russell go back to Milo's place, and do more dragging and marking for planting corn and potatoes.  Bert mentions marking for corn - the picture below shows the tool used for marking corn.

An old corn row marker ... the large wooden implement with 4 vertical
posts on the wall - the triangular piece below is probably the draw bar
for hooking it up to a horse? . Dragged both ways behind a horse this would
mark the rows of corn for planting. Then the farmer would go back
over those same marked rows with a planter to plant his corn seed.  I assume that a similar tool was used for marking to plant potatoes, with different distance between the vertical boards.

Sunday, June 10th, 1894 - Bert describes the day as "Hot! Hot!! Hot!!! Hot!!!!  I love  the way Bert capitalizes "Hot". repeats it 4 times, and adds an extra exclamation point on each successive one! Bert went to visit his father John for the day.  His Dad didn't live that far away, so I'm not sure why it took about 3 hours to get there?