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I have a notion that because of the fine weather we experienced during the winter, it has made some farm folks expect to step right from it into the cropping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photograph of two men and a young child harvesting hay or wheat [before 1900]<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Though through the years there have been odd springs that james and I can remember when seeding was commenced much earlier than this, even the sowing of wheat in April to be covered later by a depth of snow, going back to a leaf from the calender of 1927, I find that our first sowing of grain was on May 24. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cutting Wheat in western Prince Edward Island 1911. Canada<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The entry has it: \u201cSowed 6 acres of oats today. Cold.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the following day we \u201cgot the wheat in.\u201dThere are also other items interwoven with the more important work of the seed time such as \u201cset the old black hen today\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   -Ellen\u2019s diary, May 21st, 1947<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: <\/em>https:\/\/islandnewspapers.ca\/islandora\/object\/guardian%3A19470521-002<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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