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'With Reaper Binder in Bog View field cutting barley and oats. Two years ago there were 4 fields now made into one large one. The barley being 2nd crops where oats were last year. The oats 1st. crop for about 100 years.
Billy Guy (holding reins), William Woods (steward), Mike Guy (the driver) and the work horses (mares) Polly, Pella and Pansy'.
'View of bog view field from mass path entrance SE [south east] corner looking towards Mount Bolus. The oats adjoining is 1st. crop for about 100 years, barley in further pad is 2nd Crop ploughed up in 1912. When 4 fields were combined into one large field about 26 Eng. acres'.
'New road being made to stockyard -not quite finished'.