Farm Diary: September 1917

September

1 Saturday Went to mow broke cycle again got it fixed mowed in the afternoon

2 Sunday To Thresa’s folks went with Eastons

3 Monday Rained raked in PM

4 Tuesday  Stacked hay, Franks came went fishing in PM stacked two loads of hay

5 Wednesday  Franks went home went to Longostras sale with Uncle Johns

6 Thursday  Stacked hay alone, nocked down seeder, helped wash

7 Friday  To PR

8 Saturday  Fixed fence, got posts, sharpened posts rained Glen Dows here

9 Sunday To Home in AM took Reddie to Siegfords

10 Monday  Froze ice 1/4 in killed everything made fence to Mrs Bushes after Oats

11 Tuesday  Made fence all day, pulled beggies in eve to Farmers Club in eve

12 Wednesday Rained in morning scraped on fill at bridge and cut corn in the eve

13 Thursday Scraped cut corn got Robinsons binder and brought it home

14 Friday Cut corn all day to Eastons in morning to see about going to fair

15 Saturday To PR Played for dance in eve at Osage

16 Sunday Home Mc Cues here Hazel Geller Mr and Mrs smith here

17 Monday Green here after spredder, Nelson here after calf, to Osage with crates to Mc Kinley after hay

18 Tuesday  Helped wash, unloaded hay, To Mc Kinleys after a jug of hay scraped

19 Wednesday Scraped hauled wood changed spredder toung

20 Thursday Hauled manure all day

21 Friday Took cream, hauled manure

22 Saturday Hauled manure played for a dance in eve at Osage

23 Sunday Harry Frances + Minnies here went to Ponsford for a ride Sanders here a while Minnies stayed

24 Monday  Up to Osage after my potato crates. dug hole in cellar and a few potatoes with fork  Mable here for supper

25 Tuesday Rained, fixed shoes, hauled manure, up to Osage in eve, Minnies here

26 Wednesday Dug the end rows of potatoes

27 Thursday Helped Green dig potatoes

28 Friday Rained, fixed cellar, marked crates, took cream, fixed wagon, up to Osage in eve

29 Saturday Up to Osage in AM, started to dig spuds in PM, helped Mc Cue a while up to Osage in eve

30 Sunday Mr Green and Horace came over finished digging spud. Mrs G came for dinner

Farm Diary: August 1917

August

1  Wednesday  To PR got couch and shaft

2  Thursday Worked on Machine shed, Uncle Johns Aunt Mon and kids and Emma Harmson here

3  Friday Worked on machine shed to Osage to Social in eve

4  Saturday Got load of slabs finished shed put machinery in it

5  Sunday  Stayed home, Harry’s and folks here in eve stayed for supper

6 Monday Sprayed potatoes, hoed cabbage worked on fill and bridge, roasting ears for supper. B. Star

7 Tuesday  Rained worked on fill started to cut oats in PM up toe Osage in eve.

8 Wednesday Finished oats, Bennie here in eve

9 Thursday Helped wash, worked on bridge to Osage in eve

10Friday  Worked on the bridge all day. Tracie took cream

11 Saturday Worked on bridge, Vanderlip got the calf.  Mattie, Will, Frances, Bryan and Cora came. Give Harold Sartain a lesson

12 Sunday Stayed home Uncle Johns here in PM Worked on Bills car

13 Monday Worked on Wills car, went to PR in the PM

14 Tuesday helped wash, worked on bridge, went to Farmers Club in the eve

15 Wednesday Mattie’s and us went fishing up to Round Lake had good luck Aunt Bunts here in eve

16 Thursday Up to Osage, stacked grain.  Ronie has a calf

17 Friday  Bill and I went to Detroit I got examined on the draft, Aunt Bunts here, Bryan came up to Osage in eve, had rain

18 Saturday Dug potatoes in morn got $1.50 a bu.  All went to PR in PM had a dance in Osage in the eve

19 Sunday All went over to Aunt Bunt Bunts, up to the lake,  Bryan brout us home in the eve.

20 Monday Up to Osage got Percy Crosby to help stack and haul hay,  Gave two lessons in eve. Bryan and Cora came out.

21 Tuesday Helped Easton and Robinson thrash

22 Wednesday Helped Robinson Thrash, made fence

23 Thursday Went to Ruberts Uncle Johns and Wills and Bryan and Cora went

24  Friday Visited Wills and Bryan and Cora started home.  Dug post holes  Robinsons ?

25 Saturday  Made fence all day

26 Sunday To Glen Dows borrowed mower

27 Monday To Osage with cream, got mower and started mowing clover seed, light frost

28 Tuesday  Raked and mowed, damaging frost

29 Wednesday Raked Easton mowed started stacking Kenneth helped 1/2 day

30  Thursday Stacked all day til 5 o’clock Kenneth helped, Mc Cue helped rake about 4 hours with turner

31 Friday Started mowing rained a little fixed mower, took mower to Osage got cycle( fixed, got oats at Mrs. Bushes

Farm Diary: July 1917

The first entry in the next diary is July of 1917.  If I run across the other entries I will included them at a later date.  I spoke with Archie, he said his Dad would have kept track of when farm animals were bred.  Hence the B. and a name.

July

17   Tuesday Set posts and plowed potato made fence hoed hoed in garden

18   Wednesday To Osage made fence all day long R.B. Pansy ( re-bred)

19 Thursday Sprayed potatoes finished hog fence, set post west of the barn.  Gave Maurice Robinson music lesson

20 Friday Finished fence by barn, post holes in pasture fence, sawed posts

21 Saturday Set posts, hoed cabbage, plowed beans

22 Sunday Home in the AM To swimming and Glen Dows after mower in the PM  Estons here in the eve

23  Monday To Osage after staples made fence to Mc Kinleys in eve

24  Tuesday To Jud Stephens B. Dasy, sprayed potatoes mowed two rounds to Osage in eve

25 Wednesday Helped wash put rake together, brought back mower in the eve New potatoes

26 Thursday  Nelson here after oats ? the hay, Nelson put calf in pasture hauled in hay, Thresa went burying fixed fence gave Moris and kenneth their lessons to dance

27 Friday Plowed cabbage potatoes and corn, made fence plowed potatoes

28 Saturday  Hoed in garden finished plowing potatoes, hot winds damaged my early corn, sprayed potatoes, made window in house to Osage in eve

29 Sunday Went swimming got ice and frezer Glens here had ice cream

30 Monday Sprayed potatoes, bought piano, got nice rain

31 Tuesday Helped wash, to Osage to ? about selling spuds dug one bushel

Farm Journal : December 1916

December  Tracie = RED

1  Friday Up to Osage Leona, to Osage to phone, to dance

2  Saturday Husked pop corn, fixed barn

3  Sunday Went over home, Frances went home, Lydia came up to Osage

4  Monday Tried to thrash beans, dug after mink

5 Tuesday Burned the grass, non partision here, sold furs

6  Wednesday Helped Chas S. get load of wood, ont? made shelf, burned brush

7 Thursday  Cut brush, sorted apples, to farmers club, hauled fodder

8  Friday Helped Mc Kinley build log barn

9 Saturday Went to PR left Marvin with Minnie.  Lydia, Geo. S. + Ada L.  here in eve

10 Sunday Mc Cue + Glen Dows here

11 Monday To Klines and Osage, butchered in PM

12 Tuesday Chored, butchered in PM

13 Wednesday Up to Osage to sell pigs, hulled beans

14 Thursday  Hulled beans, helped Easton saw wood

15 Friday Hulled beans, husked pop corn

16 Saturday Split wood, hauled fodder and straw for self and Mc Cue

17 Sunday Home all day, Mc Cue here,sent  beans, to Japs in eve

18 Monday Got up wood

19 Tuesday Got up wood

20 Wednesday Fixed stovepipe, got up wood

21 Thursday Got up wood

22 Friday Took the cream, ground feed + sawed wood

23 Saturday Took Aunt Bunt some wood then to PR

24 Sunday Stayed home put down the congoleum

25 Monday Xmas Day went over home

26 Tuesday Stormed, chored all day

27 Wednesday  Helped wash, hauled straw

28 Thursday done odd jobs, sponged calves

29 Friday Hulled beans,Helped Mc Cue saw

30 Saturday Hulled beans, hauled straw and fodder

31 To Japs, Alks there, Anna came to visit

 

Farm Notes: Payed .20 to much for milk Wed. morn

2222

.23 too much on Sat morn

.24 to much on Wed. morning

22222

.38 to much Jan 1

Farm Diary: November 1916

November

1  Wednesday Helped Glen thrash, beggies in cellar B. Ronnie

2  Thursday  ?/ cabbage in cellar

3  Friday To PR with a load of spuds

4  Saturday Hauled manure and fodder, to PR in PM

5  Sunday  Mc Lue here fishing and skunking

6  Monday To Osage, fixed spredder hauled manure

7  Tuesday  Hauled manure, up to Osage to vote

8  Wednesday Hauled manure all day

9  Thursday Hauled manure over to glens, B. Ronnie

10  Friday Had thrashers

11 Saturday  Finished thrashing, fixed fence,to Osage in eve to show

12 Sunday Up to Mc Lue’s

13 Monday Trimed cabbage, to Glens fixed stove hauled fodder

14 Tuesday Fixed  rotten place went rat hunting

15 Wednesday  Worked on fence maisured land, went hunting, good ???

16 Thursday  Made calf fence

17 Friday  Made ?, made cellar door

18  Saturday  Took 99. 10/60 bu of spuds to PR

19  Sunday Dads, Jap here Lydia stayed

20 Monday  Took spuds 100 20/60 bus to PR

21 Tuesday Hauled fodder, to Osage maisured straw roof +cellar door

22 Wednesday Helped wash, spreader back, made hog cellar ?

23 Thursday Worked on house, Green’s spuds for seed

24 Friday  Took Cream worked on house

25 Saturday worked on house all day

26 Sunday  Worked on house, whill to Mc Lues

27 Monday Got fodder, worked on house, Thresa sick had doctor

28 Tuesday Split wood, banked house,hauled straw Mc Lue

29 Wednesday cleaned and banked hen house,fixed stall for Prance

30  Thursday Got Fodder, thrashed beans, Minnie’s here

Farm Notes Owe .02 on Fri, 2 quart Sunday

Paid .30 on Tuesday .04 too much

Farm Diary: October 1916

October

1  Sunday Fished a little while, Uncle John here

2  Monday Worked on cellar

3  Tuesday Worked on cellar AM, started to dig potatoes

4  Wednesday Dug potatoes all day

5  Thursday Dug potatoes all day

6  Friday Dug potatoes all day

7  Saturday harrowed potato ground, it rained

8  Sunday  Dads, Minnie and Anna here, went to Osage in eve

9  Monday  Pulled beggies all day (Rutabagas)

10  Tuesday pulled beggies all day and hauled

11 Wednesday Worked with beggies, worked on cellar

12 Thursday  Worked on cellar, pulled beans

13  Friday dug spuds, pulled beans

14  Saturday Took spuds and beggies to PR, Bryan went home, sold 31 bu

15  Sunday Geo. S + Lydia here, up to Minnies +  McLue + Glen here

16  Monday  Turned beggie patch

17  Tuesday  Worked on cellar, made door and steps

18  Wednesday Helped was, carried beggies down cellar

19  Thursday Carried beggies in cellar, got cabbage in

20  Friday Took cream, worked on Grainery roof

21  Saturday  Took spuds to PR 131 Bus.

22  Sunday Greens here, M Green and myself went to Robinsons

23  Monday Took 2 loads of spuds to PR

24  Tuesday Fixed on cellar, worked for Shafer so Tracie went to the Dr.

25  Wednesday Took 2 loads of spuds to PR

26  Thursday Sawed wood

27  Friday B. Brindle, took 2 loads of spuds to PR

28  Saturday Worked on cellar, took Tracie up to Osage then she went to PR, finished  Grainery roof about

29  Sunday  Tracie + Marvin over home, up to Mc Lues +Osage

30  Monday Tracie came home, 2 loads of spuds to PR

31  Tuesday To see thrashers, scraped on cellar

Notes: Payed $1 Oct 7/9 for milk, 2 Quarts Sat and for the next 10 days Paid 50cents

Payed 60 cents to start on milk Fri morn for eight days Paid

Farm Diary : September 1916

September

1  Friday  Stacked for Glen with team

2  Saturday Stacked for Glen with team

3  Sunday To Japs in eve, home all day, Bryan here

4  Monday Helped Glen stack with team

5 Tuesday  Worked on bridge in AM, stack for Glen in PM

6 Wednesday Helped wash, worked on dam

7 Thursday  Looked for wood sewers, helped dry corm

8  Friday Dug spuds, helped Glen stack in PM

9  Saturday  Took $7.50 worth of spuds to PR at 55 for  bu, Girls here

10 Sunday Hazel, Inez, Bessie, Lydia here to Japs in PM

11 Monday Cut corn, Bryan left, helped dry corn, cut corn

12 Tuesday Rained all day

13 Wednesday  Maisured root cellar, helped dry corn, cut corn ( measured )

14 Thursday Cut corn, picked sweet corn

15 Friday Cut corn, Bryan helped in PM

16 Saturday Helped dry corn, went to Greens,cut corn, Uncles here

17 Sunday Over to Uncle Johns

18 Monday Cut corn all day

19 Tuesday Bryan helped Robinsons, I cut corn to Robinsons til 3 PM

20 Wednesday To PR, Bryan helped Robinsons

21 Thursday  Helped Japs move to Will Overmons

22 Friday  To Glen Dows, started to scrape on cellar

23 Saturday Bryan helped Greens, worked on cellar

24 Sunday  Up to Minnies ( Minnie was Tracie’s sister, she was married to Jap)

25 Monday Bryan helped Greens, I worked on cellar

26 Tuesday Worked on cellar, Uncle John here, rained about 5

27 Wednesday Worked on cellar, rained about 4 o’clock

28 Thursday  Worked on cellar, Lydia and Mrs. Stuve here, Thresa sick ( Lydia is Tracie’s sister)

29 Friday Worked on cellar, Uncle Call died ( Not sure who this is?)

30 Saturday To PR in AM, worked on cellar in PM