Monday, April 27, 1868 - "I took a tub of Butter down to Brushland to day."

This has been a fine day. I was down to Brushland this forenoon. Ann was down with me. I was up on the hill after a stick to make Barrposts*.
I was drawing manure this afternoon.  Frank was here to day. Jane Gill was in here to day. I took a tub of Butter down to Brushland to day. Thid and O. Dickson and Frank Gowanlock were here to night. They stayed til 12 o clock. We had a gay time to night. Brushland. 1868

*Barpost - a post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.