Farm Diary: May 1920

May

1  Saturday  Finished sowing oats to see Dr about my throat

2  Sunday  Home Timms?  took engine across bridge

3  Monday  To Osage got plow plowed early spud patch

4  Tuesday  Finished plowing harrowing and planting early spuds

5  Wednesday  Hauled manure and disced

6  Thursday  Hauled manure went to look at seperator brought it back on trile

7  Friday  Plowed sawed and hauled manure P at Card Party

8  Saturday  Plowed and hauled manure

9  Sunday  Home all day cleaned some oats

10  Monday  Shelled seed corn rained

11  Tuesday  Hauled manure and plowed

12  Wednesday  Plowed sod Thresa washed

13  Thursday  Plowed disced and harrowed

14  Friday Harrowed took cream got planter

15  Saturday  Planted corn took planter back in eve

16  Sunday  To Ruberts and Emmas

17  Monday  Hauled manure and plowed

18  Tuesday  To Osage to send plow repairs to PR rained hauled manure

19  Wednesday  Plowed in AM to see Dr in PM rained

20  Thursday  Finished plowing disced some

21  Friday  Disced and harrowed spud ground

22  Saturday Rained made marker marked spud ground in PM to show in Osage in eve

23  Sunday  Home Dad’s here

24  Monday Harrowed corn and marked spud ground

25  Tuesday  Finished marking started planting spuds Mr. Rhodes and Sexton helped

26  Wednesday  Rained cut spuds in AM planted in PM

27  Thursday  Finished planting spuds Mrs Stuve and Lydia here made soap and cut spuds

28  Friday  Took cream harrowed spuds made hog fence across river in PM

29  Saturday  Done odd jobs for Mrs in AM hauled brush PM P.D. at Ponsford in eve

30  Sunday  Home rained Howard S and  Ted C here

31  Monday Fixed fence  Rainy hunted crows rained

Farm Diary: April 1920

April

1  Thursday  Put hay on wagon helped wash got load of hay got ready to disc mowed B. Reddie

2  Friday Took cream Blizzard Hauled saw dust and cream

3  Saturday Cleaned out barn helped King saw wood

4  Sunday Easter  Dad’s and Harrys here

5  Monday Got load of hay, sacked up spuds snowed P.D.  Osage

6  Tuesday Fixed fence, hauled hay mowed, cold

7  Wednesday Thresa to Harold and Beatrice to see baby.  Hauled hay windy cold

8  Thursday Finished hauling hay windy cold

9  Friday  To PR took cream Mothers spuds and cream P. card party

10  Saturday Unloaded corn, drove colt, hauled manure

11  Sunday  To Nonases??  after eggs wasn’t to home

12  Monday  Made harrow drag evener, to Lents funeral

13  Tuesday Helped wash fixed bridge started discing To Farmers Club  6 pigs

14  Wednesday  Burnt roadside brush disced Brill and Frazier here for dinner

15  Thursday  Burnt brush disced and harrowed

16  Friday  Burnt brush harrowed commenced sowing wheat

17  Saturday  Hauled manure finished sowing wheat.  P.D. at ponsford

18  Sunday  To S. G. Dows in PM

19  Monday  Harrowed wheat disced for oats burned stalks

20  Tuesday  Rained AM to work on plow PM at  Smilies

22  Wednesday  Fixed drill tongue helped wash worked on plow

23  Thursday  To PR to see Dr about my throat didn’t work

24  Friday  Hauled manure took cream P.D. at Osage

25  Saturday  Disced all day

26  Sunday  Home Dad here in AM

27  Monday  Hauled manure to Dr about my throat disced in eve

28  Tuesday  Hauled manure helped wash disced

29  Wednesday  Disced and harrowed

30  Thursday  Harrowed and to Sherwoods babys funeral

31  Friday  Started sowing oats

Farm Diary: March 1920

March

1  Monday  helped Dads move Thresa and kids stayed

2  Tuesday  Hauled straw and hay met stage in eve

3  Wednesday  Saw thrashers snowed fixed zither

4  Thursday  Hauled logs  Jenise? Sorenson here

5  Friday Hauled logs took cream got stove wood

6  Saturday  Hauled logs

7  Sunday  Home all day

8  Monday  Hauled logs

9  Tuesday  Hauled logs in AM straw election day

10  Wednesday  Sawed wood

11  Thursday Hauled logs helped wash

12  Friday  Hauled logs Thresa to Oras got in load of chunks

13  Saturday  To PR helped Dad haul in fauder

14  Sunday  Glen Dows here

15  Monday  Cut posts and went to Arthurs sale

16  Tuesday  Split some wood in kitchen piled up bean sack to store sale Osage

17  Wednesday  Split wood bought gang plow and brought it home from Grahams card party in eve

18  Thursday  Split wood got load of hay

19  Friday  Split wood cut and hauled posts

20  Saturday  Tried to hull timothy in Vane??

21  Sunday  To Sorensons in PM

22 Monday  Split wood harnessed Judy

23  Tuesday Split wood drove Judy first

24  Wednesday  Split wood drove Judy second time

25  Thursday  Split wood hauled in some wood with J

26  Friday  Split wood took cream drove Judy

27  Saturday  Split wood hauled manure

28  Sunday  Home all day Lloyd and Howard here

29  Monday  Hauled and split wood  put it in kitchen

30  Tuesday  Hauled and split wood put it in kitchen

31  Wednesday Finished cording in kitchen corded dry wood cows got out cleaned wheat Born Mib

Note : Straw Vote: An unofficial vote that is used either to predict the outcome of an official vote, or to measure the relative strength of candidates for office in a future election is called straw poll or straw vote. A good showing in a straw vote can give a candidate a boost, but does not necessarily predict later success.

Note: Women did not have the right to vote until the 19th Amendment was ratified in August of 1920.

Note:  Gang Plow during the 1870s, additional bottoms were added to riding plows, which were then called gang plows.
While gang plows may have as many as four bottoms, the two- and three-bottom versions were the most popular. Not all gang plows were ridden, however. Some required the operator to walk behind the plow, especially the lightweight walking plows with multiple 8-inch bottoms, which were popular in orchards and vineyards.

Farm Diary : February 1920

February

1  Sunday  At home cleaned barns

2  Monday  Chopped wood and took Spot to Robinsons

3  Tuesday  Chopped and hauled it in

4  Wednesday  Osage after a load of straw got load of stove wood brought Thresa home from Sextons herd Clarence Evans was dead

5  Thursday  Thresa went home with Alberts chopped wood and sacked spuds

6  Friday  Chopped wood

7  Saturday  Chopped and hauled wood

8  Sunday  To Aunt Amelias

9  Monday  Chopped wood  Born Young Ronie

10  Tuesday  Chopped wood took Ronie to Robinsons

11  Wednesday  Helped wash hauled in wood cleaned out mangers

12  Thursday  To PR helped Dad get in fauder

13  Friday  Took cream got load of straw

14  Saturday   Cold picked over some beans chopped in PM

15  Sunday  Home all day cold

16  Monday Chopped wood where I wanted to build

17  Tuesday  Hauled in stove wood in AM chopped in PM

18  Wednesday  Chopped all day

19  Thursday  Chopped AM hauled in PM Theresa and kids to Sextons

20  Friday  Took cream got load of straw and a load of hay

21  Saturday  Cut some logs and wood cleaned out stalks out of mangers in Pm

22  Sunday To Uncle Johns  Uncle Isic there

23  Monday  Cut logs and wood

24  Tuesday  Cut and hauled wood

25  Wednesday  Cut and hauled dry wood

26  Thursday  Helped wash hauled logs

27  Friday  Took cream hauled logs

28  Saturday  Hauled logs stormy

29  Sunday Home Greens here Pansey calf born

Farm Diary: January 1920

January

1  Thursday Hauled straw cleaned out barn and hauled it out

2  Friday Helped wash hauled some straw from Osage

3  Saturday Hauled wood and straw from Osage

4  Sunday Home sacked oats

5  Monday To Park R.  took Esta back got oats ground

6  Tuesday Hauled in last of fauder that had corn in cleaned out mangers cleaned barn and hauled it

7  Wednesday Hauled fauder all loads

8  Thursday  Hauled fauder all day

9  Friday Got load of fauder took cream cleaned barn and hauled it out

10  Saturday  To see about getting logs sawed husked some fauder fixed a bean box upstairs

11  Sunday  To Thresas folks in PR

12  Monday  Cleaned barn and hauled it out husked some corn cut some wood in road

13  Tuesday Finished wood in road cut brush  Marvin took small poxs

14  Wednesday Cut brush snowed  Buried Mrs E. Overholser

15  Thursday  Got bean sorter to working snowed hard all day hauled in wood cleaned out mangers

16  Friday  Helped wash took cream brought back load of straw cleaned barn and hauled out manure

17  Saturday  Cut wood hauled straw

18  Sunday  Home all day

19  Monday  Hauled straw all day

20  Tuesday  Hauled straw cleaned up around stacks

21  Wednesday  Cut wood sacked oats

22  Thursday To PR bought corn got oats ground hauled in some fauder for Dad’s.

23  Friday  Unloaded feed took cream got load of straw cleaned manure and stalks out of barn and hauled them out Feed Snow Corn

24  Saturday  Hauled fauder and got load of wood

25  Sunday  Home all day

26  Monday Hauled a load of fauder chopped

27  Tuesday  Chopped went to Creamery milked in PM

28  Wednesday  Chopped and piled wood

29  Thursday  Piled wood helped clean house took  ?? to R

30  Friday  Helped wash took cream chopped in PM

31  Saturday  Chopped and piled wood

Farm Diary: December 1919

December

1  Monday  Hauled fauder and straw

2  Tuesday  Helped wash and hauled some straw

3  Wednesday  Butchered pig hauled in wood

4  Thursday  Hauled some fauder Thresa went to Ora’s  I to Glen Dows in PM

5  Friday  Got a load of clover straw took cream Glen came and got pig

6  Saturday  Got in some fauder unloaded straw went in cellar made chicken crate

7  Sunday  Home bad day blizzard fixed pig crate

8  Monday  To PR with pig corn beans and chickens very cold

9  Tuesday  Got load of fauder  tracked wolves took Jack Robinson some wood

10  Wednesday  Hauled stove wood in shed cleaned out barn got load of fauder

11  Thursday  Hauled fauder and straw helped wash

12  Friday  To PR to get teeth fixed PD at Osage

13  Saturday  Hauled straw an fauder

14  Sunday  Home cold put butcher stand together

15  Monday  Hauled fauder wood and straw

16  Tuesday  Hauled straw took sow to Green got beef

17  Wednesday  Hauled out manure hauled in fauder Mc Loughlin here after potatoes went in cellar

18  Thursday  Hauled manure and rye straw  B. sow  caught mink

19  Friday Skinned mink took cream Thresa and kids went along butchered veal loaded wood

20  Saturday  To PR with wood for Dads Veal and Oats to get ground

21  Sunday  Home fine day Thawed to Sextons in afternoon to Greens after sow

22  Monday  Helped wash to Sandersons after straw unloaded straw in bunk

23  Tuesday  Hauled fauder

24  Wednesday  Made covered sleigh box

25  Thursday  To Alberts Glens there also PD Osage

26  Friday Finished sleigh top hauled in wood

27  Saturday  Hauled straw manure and fauder Thresa sick

28  Sunday  Home thought Thresa had small pox kids and myself went to PR with Leo and got vacinated Esta came home with us

29  Monday  Chored helped take care of Thresa hauled a load of manure

30  Tuesday Hauled in fauder went to see about getting logs sawed

31  Wednesday  Hauled fauder and straw

Farm Diary: November 1919

November

1  Saturday Hauled straw Thresa to PR Gave Mouris lesson

2  Sunday  Home snowed hard

3  Monday  Helped paper kitchen snowed hunted colts

4  Tuesday  helped wash made box for Ronald

5  Wednesday  Butchered, Albert bought Prince

6 Thursday  Hauled load for Albert

7  Friday  Cut up hog put box on sled

8  Saturday  To PR with load of spuds

9  Sunday  To Alberts

10  Monday  Helped wash got some bedding  Rained Thundered Blizzard

11 Tuesday  Cleaned out granery to celebration in eve

12  Wednesday  Fixed barn door and got load of wood

13  Thursday  Hauled some fauder and straw

14  Friday  Took cream started hauling grain

15  Saturday  Hauled grain MR Sexton helped

16  Sunday  Hauled grain loaded wood

17  Monday  Thrashed our grain at Sandersons

18  Tuesday  Chored took Wills oats to Glens

19  Wednesday  Worked on cellar sold spuds 12 bus

20  Thursday  Worked on cellar got some straw started loading beans

21  Friday  To Livingstons to get beans thrashed

22  Saturday  Hauled fauder and chored

23  Sunday  Dad Harrys and Alberts here

24  Monday  Hauled fauder and odd jobs

25  Tuesday  Thrashed some beans by hand

26  Wednesday  Finished beans to  chickens to Weeks banked house

27  Thursday  Thanksgiving to Alberts PD at Osage

28  Friday  Chored got in load of fodder

29  Saturday Cleaned beans

30  Sunday  Home cold finished cleaning beans

Farm Diary : October 1919

October

1  Wednesday  Hauled some manure to Glen after colts

2  Thursday  Hauled manure helped Glen in PM

3  Friday  Finished Glens spuds

4  Saturday  Made end gate hauled beans

5  Sunday  Got Pearl Dads and Harrys here

6  Monday  Started loading car of spuds  loaded?

7  Tuesday  Hauled four loads $932  load worth

8  Wednesday  Took load of spuds and clover  233.42 worth Thresa and kids went along

9  Thursday  Done odd jobs drove Shair took Weeks? some wood

10  Friday  Took cream and more wood put up heater carried truck in cellar

11  Saturday  Worked on cellar and pulled beans PD at Osage

12  Sunday  Lydia and Francis and Bob here also Frank P.

13  Monday  Pulled beans and worked on cellar burnt vines

14  Tuesday  Raked and burnt spud vines To Osage

15  Wednesday  Hauled manure  and plowed to H Sterns sale

16  Thursday  Hauled manure and plowed

17  Friday  Hauled manure and plowed

18  Saturday  Plowed Francis here

19  Sunday  Home Harrys here after wood with truck

20  Monday Rained To PR in PM settled up at bank

21  Tuesday  Helped wash hauled in some fauder Plowed

22 Wednesday  Plowed

23  Thursday  Plowed plowed garden in eve  started snowing good sleighing stayed on

24  Friday  Snowed  fixed hen house and calf stock put chickens in hen house and stock in barn

25  Saturday  Hauled some fauder made manger in barn

26  Sunday  6 below zero Greens here

27  Monday  Hauled some fauder fixed barn put fruit in cellar

28  Tuesday  Helped wash filled in barn and hauled straw and fauder

29  Wednesday  Hauled straw  measured Leos stack and bought half

30  Thursday  Helped Leo saw wood

31  Friday  Helped McCue move

Farm Diary : September 1919

1  Monday  Cut corn by hand Orrin helped

2  Tuesday  Got Robinsons binder it did not work Orrin cut by hand took binder to Osage

3  Wednesday  Cut corn by hand  got binder cut in PM Broke down again took to Osage

4  Thursday  Cut and shocked corn finished a field stacked clover

5  Friday  Finished clover took cream  Orrin quit  Pulled beans

6  Saturday  Helped Siegfords thrash

7  Sunday  To G. Dows got twine at Greens

8  Monday  Helped Siegfords thrash

9  Tuesday  Helped Siegfords thrash

10  Wednesday Pulled beans

11 Thursday  Pulled beans made fence

12  Friday  Took cream made fence plowed around clover stack

13  Saturday  Rained Helped Thresa  straighten upstairs finished fence cut popcorn got wood To Thrash clover with put roof on beans

14  Sunday  To PR  Rubert and Emma and Stella Birks  there

15  Monday  Worked on cellar and cut stove pipe hole to change stove thrashed clover for self

16  Tuesday  Cut hay helped Thresa move stove

17  Wednesday  Pulled beans raked and shocked

18  Thursday  B. Star worked on cellar all day

19  Friday  Cut and hauled logs for cellar took cream

20  Saturday  Worked on cellar stacked hay PD  Burlingames

21  Sunday  To Ruberts with Dads

22 Monday  Worked on cellar

23  Tuesday  Cut cellar poles dug potatoes pulled bean end rows

24  Wednesday  Helped Greens dig spuds

25  Thursday  Helped Greens in AM started digging for myself in PM Stella here

26  Friday  Dug spuds

27  Saturday  Dug spuds PD at Burlingames

28  Sunday  Uncle Johns here rained

29  Monday Finished digging spuds

30  Tuesday Fixed cellar top

Farm Diary : August 1919

August

1  Friday  Hoed strawberries helped Will Overman run binder

2  Saturday  Run binder for Will Overman

3  Sunday  To Sunday school to G. Dows

4  Monday  Took cream got telephone and put it in hoed strawberries P.D. in Ponsford   (P.D.= Played Dance)

5  Tuesday  Helped wash hoed strawberries

6  Wednesday   Made spreader shed

7  Thursday  Finished shed  pulled down hay forks??  put spreader in shed mowed weeds and brush

8  Friday  Took cream mowed brush

9  Saturday  Turned oats took Thresa to Osage she went to PR I plowed?? strawberries Grun got spreader fixed up wagon bed to haul hogs Vida came in eve P.D. in Osage

10  Sunday  To Greens in PM

11  Monday  To PR took veal and hogs

12  Tuesday  To Beckers after load of oats Rained

13  Wednesday  Made fence around poarch and pump took Robinsons wagon back to Osage in eve

14  Thursday  Raining in AM  pulled weeds out of beans

15  Friday  Took cream and straw off root cellar Vida and Thresa went  P.D. at Ponsford

16  Saturday  Scaped dirt off cellar G. Dow here  telephone meeting

17  Sunday To Itaska Park took Vida

18  Monday  Got corn to dry spread oats

19  Tuesday  Stacked oats

20  Wednesday Rained some stacked oats

21  Thursday Finished stacking scraped dirt off cellar

22  Friday   Helped Leo thrash

23  Saturday  Cut my clover shocked some

24  Sunday Aunt Amelia and Vida here

25  Monday  Shocked clover and cut corn by hand

26  Tuesday helped wash got corn binder cut corn

27  Wednesday Cut corn took binder back to Greens

28 Thursday  Shocked corn Orrin helped in PM

29  Friday  Cut by hand AM shocked in PM

30  Saturday Socked and cut by hand

31  Sunday  To PR to ballgame in PM

Farm Diary : July 1919

July

1  Tuesday Cultivated spuds and hoed beans

2  Wednesday  Cultivated beans Plowed early spuds

3  Thursday Rained took cream fixed fence ground mower sycles

4  Friday  To PR To Nevis played for dance

5  Saturday Hoed and plowed beans

6  Sunday Home Sextons here in eve

7 Monday Plowed beans took cream plowed corn

8  Tuesday  Spray spuds helped wash

9 Wednesday  sprayed spuds sit up at Robinsons

10  Thursday Plowed corn

11  Friday Plowed corn B. Susan Plowed corn

12  Saturday Worked on mower sprayed spuds

13  Sunday Went Blue berrying to Will Overmans in PM

14  Monday To Mr Robinsons funeral took mower to shop in PM

15  Tuesday  Mowed hay

16  Wednesday  Mowed and raked some

17  Thursday  Raked and bunched

18  Friday Stacked hay Sextons Will Overman Kenneth and Evert helped

19  Saturday Rained plowed spuds

20  Sunday Went berrying  Uncle Johns and Vida found us turned hay shocks

21  Monday  Finished stacking hay

22  Tuesday  Plowed spuds and fauder corn

23 Wednesday  Helped Leo stack hay also Will Overman PM

24  Thursday Helped Sextons mow hay

25  Friday Sprayed potatoes took cream

26  Saturday  Spray and plowed spuds

27  Sunday  Went berrying Uncle John  Ssic?? Lyde Harry Dad and ma here in eve

28  Monday  Leo cut oats for myself

29  Tuesday  Rainy cut my wheat

30  Wednesday To Osage strung telephone wire

31  Thursday Finished telephone wire hoed strawberries

Farm Diary : June 1919

 

June

1  Sunday  Rained home?  Leo brought Thresa home

2  Monday  planted beans planted corn took cream

3  Tuesday  Planted corn harrowed beans around home

4  Wednesday  Set out cabbage and strawberries drove posts

5  Thursday  Drove posts fixed chicken fence rained grubed

6  Friday  Took cream plowed fence row fixed bridge McKinley here grubed

7  Saturday Planted potatoes for McKinley

8  Sunday  To S.G.

9  Monday  Harrowed fouder corn  cultivated spuds

10  Tuesday  Plowed spuds made fence

11 Wednesday  Made fence

12  Thursday  Made fence commenced to cultivate corn

13  Friday  Took cream Esessor? here cultivated corn  (Assessor??)

14  Saturday  Plowed spuds

15  Sunday  Aunt Amelias folks McLaughlin Frank Wilsons and Da and Ma here

16  Monday  Plowed spuds in AM and planted corn and it rained Mrs Green and Susie here PM 

17  Tuesday  Plowed spuds and beans

18  Wednesday  Plowed beans and spuds

19  Thursday  Got oats at Robinsons hoed ends of beans hoed quack in fouder corn

20  Friday  Took cream hoed quack and replanted fouder corn

21  Saturday  Cultivated fauder corn in AM rained in PM

22  Sunday  Home rained got Mocisins

23  Monday   To PR  took veal got dresser

24  Tuesday  Tried to cultivate to wet, filled holes cultivated in PM

25 Wednesday  Cultivated corn

26  Thursday  Sprayed potatoes bugs bad

27  Friday  Sprayed potatoes bugs bad

28  Saturday  Set telephone poles all day 

29  Sunday  Went after berries took mower apart

30  Monday Cultivated spuds all day

Farm Diary: May 1919

May

1  Thursday Planted spuds cut spuds plowed sod

2  Friday  Took cream hauled manure and plowed played for a dance at Ponsford

3  Saturday  Hauled manure and plowed rained got 30 bus of oats of Robinsons

4  Sunday  Home all day hunted crows Luella here

5  Monday Took cream hauled manure and plowed

6  Tuesday Rained B. Snow and mowed sheled seed corn helped ????

7  Wednesday  Hauled manure and plowed sod

8  Thursday  Disced spud ground in AM Rained in PM hauled manure in eve

9  Friday   Hauled manure took cream disced and harrowed

10  Saturday  Carried spuds out of cellar Kenneth cut them I harrowed started planting in eve

11 Sunday To Greens

12  Monday Planted potatoes  Kenneth here

13  Tuesday  Planted potatoes Kenneth here

14  Wednesday  Finished planting spuds hauled manure

15  Thursday Hauled manure and plowed corn ground

16  Friday  Took cream 44 Ibs. 1 lb butter plowed and hauled manure

17  Saturday  Plowed and disced to Osage in eve

18  Sunday Home  Uncle Johns Aunt Amelia folks and Will Overman here

19  Monday  Disced harrowed got Leo corn planter

20 Tuesday Planted corn and plowed fouder corn ground

21 Wednesday Took cream B. Pansy  Sartin took wagon plowed in PM

22 Thursday  Plowed

23  Friday Took cream plowed fouder and beans

24  Saturday  plowed and harrowed early spuds

25  Sunday Will Overman here after wagon

26 Monday To PR with a load of spuds

27  Tuesday Harrowed corn ground and beans

28  Wednesday   Plowed and harrowed harrowed potatoes G. Dow here took colts to pasture

29  Thursday  Finished harrowing spuds To Osage plowed fence for chicken buck wheat,  to Will Overmans after seed,  got oats of Robinson

30  Friday Sowed buck wheat harrowed it planted beans to Osage Program Thresa went to PR on stage

31  Saturday  Planted fauder corn rained

Farm Diary : April 1919

April

1  Tuesday  Split wood and hauled manure

2  Wednesday Split wood  rained cleaned up

3  Thursday To Robinsons to get Oats and get it ground treated wheat Bedded sow helped McCue load wood split wood took cream in eve

4  Friday Made fence all day to Lutkers in eve

5  Saturday  Made fence all day to Osage in eve

6  Sunday  To McCues and Church

7  Monday  Took cream chored a blizzard

8  Tuesday Helped wash made wagon bobster rained

9  Wednesday Split wood snowed and rained

10  Thursday Snowed made pig trough

11  Friday Took cream plowed and hauled manure  To Lutkes surprise at holly??

12  Saturday Plowed and hauled manure

13  Sunday  Home to Robinsons to see about oats

14  Monday Burnt Brush took cream made fence hauled of roots scraped up rubbish

15  Tuesday  Sped potato vines bought oats in AM had them ground scraped up stack bottoms

16  Wednesday Disced all day Mike and Ethyl here in eve

17  Thursday  Harrowed started seeding wheat Piano tuner here

18  Friday Finished wheat harrowed it loaded potatoes

19  Saturday To PR with a load of potatoes  Victory Liberty Loan Praide

20  Sunday Easter home all day

21  Monday Took cream took a $50.00 load disced in PM Lydia, Vernon + Mary here a while

22 Tuesday  Helped wash, disced, Emma  + baby came out

23 Wednesday Disced and harrowed

24  Thursday  Ground froze hauled manure  started to drill Oats in PM

25  Friday Took cream, finished oats

26  Saturday  Harrowed hauled manure

27  Sunday  Home all day, Sandersons  + Greens here a while

28  Monday  Took cream cleaned up stack bottoms and saw dust pile hauled a load of manure plowed

29  Tuesday Plowed and harrowed Dr. Judy

30 Wednesday Diped and cut potatoes oiled planter planted early potatoes

Farm Diary : March 1919

March

1  Saturday  Chopped in morn to PR paid int

2  Sunday  Home in AM to Sextons in PM

3  Monday  Chopped hauled straw “went in cellar”  and wood

4  Tuesday  Chopped hauled and piled wood

5  Wednesday  Chopped all day

6  Thursday  Chopped and piled wood

7  Friday  Took cream to Gilberts sale

8  Saturday Chopped all day

9  Sunday  To Aunt Amelias Dad Ma and Francis

10  Monday  Chopped and hauled wood

11 Tuesday  Chopped to election took load o0f logs

12  Wednesday  Helped wash hauled a  jag? of straw and one load of logs loaded another

13  Thursday  Finished cutting and hauling logs piled wood had 300 logs

14  Friday  Took cream trimmed log tops

15 Saturday   Hauled cut and piled wood cut some telephone poles

16 Sunday  Home in AM to McCues in PM to meeting in evening at Osage

17  Monday   Helped Smiley saw wood

18  Tuesday Took out some straw chored butchered Veal sawed wood for me in PM

19  Wednesday  Sawed wood in AM to Osage skinned veal cut some telephone poles

20 Thursday  Got oats ground cut telephone poles

21  Friday  Split wood took cream finished T poles

22  Saturday  Split and corded wood in shed

23  Sunday  Home all day rained

24  Monday  Split and corded wood in shed

25  Tuesday  Split and chorded wood Drove Prince  Lydia came in eve

26  Wednesday  Split and hauled wood to Eastons

27  Thursday  Split and hauled wood to Eastons

28  Friday  Split out on big pile took cream in PM

29  Saturday Split wood helped McCue load wood

30  Sunday  Cleaned wheat for market and seed  (Bom Queen)

31  Monday  To PR took wheat veal beans cream Fred home

Farm Diary : February 1919

February

1  Saturday  Skidded logs, fixed cow pen, up to Osage in eve, gave Maurice a lesson

2  Sunday  Snowed all day done a few odd jobs

3  Monday  Got in a load of wood skidded logs

4  Tuesday  Skidded logs

5  Wednesday Hauled logs

6 Thursday  Hauled logs Born Jemmis?  calf

7  Friday Hauled logs took cream

8  Saturday  Hauled logs

9  Sunday  Home JJ Robinson and family here

10  Monday  Hauled straw and wood and logs

11 Tuesday  Hauled a load of logs to Farmers Club

12 Wednesday Filed saw cut logs in yard

13 Thursday  Helped wash cut logs in PM

14  Friday Hauled logs took cream

15  Saturday Cliped? stock  in AM cut wood PM

16  Sunday Home in AM  To Leos in PM sent beans

17  Monday  Hauled ice for creamery  cut dry wood in PM

18  Tuesday  Cut dry wood and hauled some

19  Wednesday  Hauled wood helped wash cut wood and cleared

20  Thursday  Cleared and cut wood

21  Friday  Took cream cleared and cut wood

22  Saturday  Cut wood hauled wood

23  Sunday  To Dads Harrys and Alberts

24  Monday  Hauled straw and stove wood loaded up oats

25  Tuesday  Got oats ground helped Sextons  saw

26 Wednesday  Chored in AM  helped Sextons saw

27  Thursday  (Dec)??  helped wash  chopped on second sawing  ( This entry is marked Dec 27)

28  Friday Took Cream chopped in PM

Farm Diary : January 1919

January

1  Wednesday  Loaded up a load of wood.  Greens here.

2  Thursday Thursday  To PR with wood shipped  Mower?

3  Friday Took cream went in cellar hauled out some feed to stock gave Kenneth lesson balanced account

4  Saturday  Hauled load of straw Gave Maurice lesson got in load of wood got mail in eve

5  Sunday Home Will Overmans here in PM

6  Monday Hauled Straw from Seigfords

7  Tuesday  Hauled straw

8  Wednesday  Hauled straw

9  Thursday Hauled straw in Am  Took  Page? to stock and went in cellar sorted spuds Windy in PM

10  Friday   Got load of straw took cream Took Spot to Tonnies

11  Saturday  Made straw rock  got load of wood bought a fish of Jim Sephens

12  Sunday Home in AM to Sandersons in PM

13  Monday Hauled straw sent beans to Dale

14  Tuesday Hauled straw in AM to Farmers Club in PM Finished hauling straw

15  Wednesday Helped wash unloaded straw fixed rack to haul manure hauled one load

16  Thursday  To PR Thresa and sons went

17  Friday Took cream hauled manure and wood

18  Saturday  Hauled manure and wood  gave Maurice lesson to Osage in eve gave Kenneth lesson in eve

19  Sunday  Home,  cliped? calvs To Will Overmans after quarter of beef

20  Monday  Hauled manure and wood scraped up around straw stacks got in load of stove wood

21  Tuesday  Sacked and crated load of spuds  $32.20 worth took to PR

22 Wednesday  Helped wash sacked and crated spuds

23 Thursday  To PR with spuds $ 33.35 worth

24  Friday  Took cream covered seed spuds helped get Robinsons seed spuds gave Kenneth lesson

25  Saturday  Finished Robinsons spuds gave Morris lesson sorted triamphs $42.00 to Robinsons

26  Sunday  Home in AM  took sleigh ride Mc Cues here in eve

27  Monday  Finished sorting and changing spuds took beans to house hauled load of manure

28  Tuesday  Helped Robinson saw

29  Wednesday Helped wash  showed log cutters where to cut got load of feed ground

30  Thursday  Men here to cut logs hauled one load to sawmill

31  Friday  Hauled a load of logs, took cream, skidded logs,  B. Ronie

Farm diary : December 1918

December

1  Sunday  Home all day, Glen sick

2  Monday  Chored, went to Yoki’s and bought hay

3  Tuesday  Went to PR with potatoes

4  Wednesday  Helped wash, sacked potatoes cleaned up around straw and fodder

5  Thursday  To PR with spuds Glen went to Greens

6  Friday  Took cream and Tracie and the boys to Osage they went to PR  chored got some feed ground to Robinsons

7  Saturday  Chored,  got wood, Tracie gone

8  Sunday  Chored, down to Tonys  Harry brought Tracie home

9  Monday  Cut brush, fixed shoes, stormed.

10  Tuesday  Put hat rack together cut brush

11 Wednesday  Went after load of hay and  unloaded it

12  Thursday  Went after load of hay  Took Thresa to ade

13  Friday  Got load of Rye Straw divided stack loaded up wood

14  Saturday  To PR with load of wood

15  Sunday  Home in AM G. D. ( Glen Dow) here to Mc Cues in PM

16  Monday  B. Sow took out Faye??  to stack

17  Tuesday   Went after hay

18  Wednesday  Went after hay, hauled out load of straw to stack, got in a little wood

19  Thursday  After hay

20  Friday  Hauled out load to stack got wood took cream, got load of Rye Straw went to program in eve

21  Saturday  Got hay

22 Sunday  Went to Will Overmans

23  Mionday  After hay

24  Tuesday  Put seperator in house,  chored,  got shed from Sextons

25  Wednesday Xmas day went over home played for dance in Osage

26  Thursday  Got hay

27  Friday  Got load of hay, hauled out feed to stock to Letke’s  surprise in evening

28  Saturday  Finished hauling hay,  got a load of wood, went in cellar

29  Sunday  Home, to Letkes a little while

30  Monday  Helped wash, took feed to Robinsons to get ground

31  Tuesday   Fixed Baby a box hauled out a load of fed to stock took mower apart sold it to Rubert

Farm Diary: November 1918

November

1  Friday Took cream and plow made calf stomels

2  Saturday  Made fence tore out garden fence to Osage after plow

3  Sunday Home to Osage got parcel post

4  Monday  Cleared and burned

5  Tuesday  Rained tried to clean beans fixed fanning mill to Osage to election

6  Wednesday  Lutke started making fence hauled post and finished clearing started plowing

7  Thursday  Lutke made fence poured in AM Thresa sick didn’t not plow in PM

8  Friday  To Osage with cream plowed

9  Saturday  Plowed

10  Sunday  Home in AM Leo took us to PR to folks

11  Monday  To Mc on land deals home got load of wood plowed was frozen in PM Emma and kids here

12  Tuesday  Lutke and myself cleaned beans

13  Wednesday   Hauled manure plowed garden raked vines

14  Thursday  Hailed manure and stack bottom Emma home

15  Friday Plowed and hauled out stack bottom

16  Saturday  Put some spuds in wagon and took them out again it rained so did not go to PR

17  Sunday  Rained home chored

18  Monday  Graded up to bridge got wood banked house

19  Tuesday  To PR to sell spuds and beans

20  Wednesday  To PR with load of spuds

21  Thursday  To Osage butchered cow and delivered some

22  Friday  To PR with a load of spuds and beef

23  Saturday   ??? up stove cut up beef

24  Sunday  To home all day sacked spuds in eve

25  Monday Took spuds to PR  Jim R took load

26  Tuesday  Butchered pig to Osage  for hr ? keg  Easton took load of spuds

27  Wednesday To PR with spuds

28  Thursday  Thanksgiving home done chores and celebrated

29  Friday  Got in load of wood took cream  packed well made sausage  **( The well was most likely packed with sawdust )

30  Saturday  To PR with load of spuds cold  Glen D came sick flu

Farm Diary: October 1918

October

1  Tuesday  Pulled beans picked up corn in eve

2  Wednesday  Helped wash and pulled beans Mc to look * corn

3  Thursday  Pulled beans worked on cellar in morn

4  Friday Picked up corn to Osage finished pulling beans

5  Saturday  To PR with spuds 21.67 worth  19.70 net weight

6  Sunday  Chored  up to Leos in PM Dads and Harrys here for supper

7  Monday To PR with load of spuds 27 worth  ?? ord Eaton

8  Tuesday To Osage carried spuds in cellar went after load of rye straw to put on cellar

9  Wednesday Took wagon to Osage to get Sandersons and took load of spuds to Osage 29.56 worth took ????

10  Thursday  Helped wash fixed Sandersons wagon tongue to Osage got wagon to help thrash picked up some corn

11  Friday  Hooked up thrasher wood fixed fence around Firths Buckwheat  rained Springoff here thrashers here Sold Nancy $150

12  Saturday  Finished thrashing fenced straw finished up corn took Sandersons wagon home

13  Sunday Jim cleaned up beans around bean stack

14  Monday  Took load of spuds 21.53 and calf to ship

15   Tuesday  Done odd jobs picked up some corn got a load of Rye Straw to put on cellar Uncle John here

16  Wednesday B. Spot hauled straw

17  Thursday  Helped wash hauled straw to farmers club in eve

18  Friday  Took cream hauled fodder

19  Saturday  Chored  took some spuds to PR in PM

20  Sunday  To Harrys he took us and Broughtons home

21  Monday  Hauled fodder

22 Tuesday  Hauled fodder and picked up corn

23  Wednesday Thrashed beans

24  Thursday Helped wash pulled stumps and burned them

25  Friday  Took cream  piled and burned stumps

26  Saturday Took load of wheat to PR  68.45

27  Sunday Aunt Bunts and Gruns here rained

28  Monday  Hauled wood  went after fanning mill to Osage  come home took the “flu”

29  Tuesday  Sick Thresa done chores

30  Wednesday  Sick Lydia came

31  Thursday  Got up a little  Luthe took my turn

Farm Diary: September 1918

September  Tracie wrote the Diary all month.

1  Sunday  Shucked corn and cut corn took corn to Tonys,  Will Overmans here.

2  Monday  Mr. Letke took us to PR we started for Iowa rode all day and night

3  Tuesday  Got to Logan at 8:30, up to Charlies then went home, Wills were down

4  Wednesday  Out home,went to Logan in PM

5  Thursday  To Logan in morn.  Byron and Grover went to Camp Dodge as soldiers, helped thrash, up to Wills to stay all night

6  Friday  Up to Will, went to Waldness  and Houghs in PM then to Logan in eve

7  Saturday  To Charlies in AM Franks came and went to Georges in PM

8  Sunday At Georges, went for rides

9  Monday Started home went by Omaha and seen Harold and Ruth then out to Franks

10  Tuesday At Franks went over to home place, Knaussess and then to Chas. Alecks

11  Wednesday At Alecks then to Earl Alecks  Ma came over and we went to the fair at Mo. Valley

12  Thursday  At Ma’s all day

13  Friday  At Ma’s went to Logan to Charlies and Grahams, then home, Plaths and Dales up in the eve.

14  Saturday  Went up to Wills then they took us to Lauras Georges there also.

15  Sunday  At Lauras us and Lauras started for home, Wills took us as far as Onawa, rode train all night

16  Monday  Rode all day got to PR in eve down home all while there Rolo brought us out home, everything alright.

17  Tuesday  Went after cows, up to Osage cut corn

18  Wednesday Cut corn, rained fixed cellar  Laura came out, Harry Beatrice Alva and Harold here in the eve.

19  Thursday  Fixed cellar sold cattle took Laura to Osage cut corn

20  Friday Shocked corn helped Green dig potatoes

21  Saturday Helped Green dig spuds, started to dig ours in PM

22  Sunday  Pulled beans got corn, up to Osage,  Uncle Johns here for dinner

23  Monday  Took cows up to Osage, didn’t sell them, dig spuds all day

24  Tuesday  Rained make wagon tongue  up to Osage, played for dance in Ponsford

25  Wednesday  Got corn, worked on cellar up to Osage Mama came out, dug spuds in PM

26  Thursday  Dug spuds all day

27  Friday Dug spuds all day got done

28  Saturday  Up to Osage, dumped rest of potatoes, too Mama up to Osage, fixed cellar top, got corn, took Greens crates home after supper, took a  $100. Liberty Bond

29  Sunday  Home all day,up to Osage

30  Monday  Up to Osage got wood, started to pull beans.

Farm Diary: August 1918

August

1  Thursday  To sawmill after load of lumber piled lumber  Bob Blanchard in eve

2  Friday  Took cream prepared strawberry patch and set them out

3  Saturday  Cleaned and sprayed hen house and cabbage shot crows and grubed got six lbs of sugar

4  Sunday  To PR and Laporte with Harry

5  Monday  Cut and grubed brush

6  Tuesday  Helped wash and grubed

7  Wednesday Cut my oats and wheat

8  Thursday  Helped Leo from 8:45 till 4:10

9  Friday Rained took cream gave Maurice lesson to leos 4 hours

10  Saturday  Helped Leo 3 hours cut my oats to Osage in eve

11  Sunday  Home B. Susan took Glens seperator back Glen here

12  Monday  Rained AM finished cutting my oats

13  Tuesday  helped wash cut sweet clover shocks of oats for self helped Leo shock

14  Wednesday  Fixed fence hauled in sweet clover  Rolo Aunt Ann and Francis here helped Leo in PM

15  Thursday  Helped Leo shock 4 hours in AM looked after help to stackloaded up wheat

16  Friday  Stacked Mr Rhodes helped

17  Saturday  Stacked Mr Rhodes helped plowed fence row

18  Sunday To PR took Francis back

19  Monday Made fence took cream

20  Tuesday  Caught coon drug wood rained

28  Wednesday  Helped wash

29  Thursday  Went to PR to the fair

30  Friday Took Cream helped Leo stack

31  Saturday helped Leo in AM up to Osage Aunt Ann, Rolo, Mama and Francis here

Farm Diary : July 1918

July

1  Monday  Hoed quack plowed beans

2  Tuesday Helped wash fixed fence R.B. Spot  hoed quack

3  Wednesday  Hoed quack to Osage Plowed and sprayed spuds

4  Thursday To PR.  B.Star

5  Friday Plowed and sprayed spuds took cream

6  Saturday  Plowed and sprayed spuds took cream

7  Sunday  To Home Church in eve

8  Monday  Made chicken fence hoed quack out of corn

9  Tuesday  Sprayed spuds   helped wash hoed corn

10  Wednesday  Hoed quack out of the spuds plowed corn Thresa and Aunt Amelia folks went fishing

11  Thursday  Plowed beans plowed and sprayed spuds

12  Friday  Took cream plowed and sprayed spuds

13  Saturday  Sprayed spuds To PR weed beans

14  Sunday  Jony here to Greens and baptism in PM

15  Monday To cream scraped in ends of bridge

16  Tuesday  Helped wash moved hay

17  Wednesday  Moved hay

18  Thursday  Sprayed spuds AM raked hay in PM

19  Friday  Hauled hay

20  Saturday  Finished haying very hot and dry a shower

21  Sunday  Home in AM To Mc Cue in PM  hard rain

22  Monday Sprayed spuds took cream

23  Tuesday  Born Reddios? calf  helped wash helped Leo shock

24  Wednesday  R.B. Spot  Helped Leo1 1/2 hours took logs to mill

25  Thursday Cut logs and hauled them.  Sexton helped saw

26  Friday  Hauled logs

27  Saturday  Roled logs in pond  rained started sawing

28  Sunday  To PR

29  Monday  Saw mill finished my lumber helped Leo in PM Thresa went along

30  Tuesday  Helped Leo all day

31  Wednesday Helped Leo from 9:30 3 :30 Uncle Harms Ella Aunt Amelia and family here

Farm Diary : June 1918

June

1  Saturday Plowed bean ground disced hauled stack bottom

2  Sunday To PR Emma and Rubert home

3  Monday  Harrowed and marked and planted beans

4  Tuesday Planted beans helped wash grubed G. Dow here in eve

5  Wednesday Grubed rained

6  Thursday Grubed to Osage  replanted corn  plowed spuds

7  Friday Harrowed beans took cream replanted corn grubed

8  Saturday worked cabbage patch Glen Dow here grubed P. Dance

9  Sunday  Home all day

10  Monday Grubed

11 Tuesday  Grubed

12  Wednesday R.B. Spot fixed fence

13 Thursday To PR Ronald to DR.

14  Friday Hoed and took cream plowed corn

15  Saturday Cultivated corn and spuds

16  Sunday Home all day To McCues in eve with Estons

17  Monday To PR shipped Veal  Bryan and Harold came

18 Tuesday Cultivated spuds

19  Wednesday Cultivated spuds and beans

20  Thursday Went fishing to Michel dam

21  Friday Cultivated beans  B and H to RR. (Bryan and Harold to Rail Road) played for dance at Dorset  Born Hoover

22  Saturday Fixed fence cultivated beans hoed

23  Sunday Home had ice cream went to church in eve.  Bryan Harold Floyd Loretta Eva and Rose here

24  Monday  Took the cream cultivated To Osage in eve

25  Tuesday Cultivated spuds Bryan went home Wilbur here for dinner

26  Wednesday Helped wash plowed spuds

27  Thursday  Plowed spuds took Thresa  to ade aunt? Amelia here to Robinson’s with star

28  Friday  Sprayed spuds hauled lumber and piled it

29  Saturday Hoed quack grass Give Maurice lesson

30  Sunday  Home B. Pansey  Harrys and Dad and Makai?

Farm Diary : May 1918

May

1  Tuesday  Hauled manure all day

2  Thursday  Helped wash hauled manure

3  Friday Disced for spuds

4  Saturday Disced and harrowed  P. dance

5  Sunday To PR

6  Monday Plowed and harrowed

7  Tuesday  To Osage Cut and planted spuds

8  Wednesday  Lydia and Jim Stephens here planted spuds

9  Thursday  Planted spuds

10  Friday Finished planting spuds  Lydia home

11  Saturday Marked corn ground planted sweet corn B. Snow (Bred Snow)

12  Sunday Home Mc Cues Glen Dow Will Overmans here Thresa had headache

13  Monday Planted corn finished

14  Tuesday Helped wash harrowed corn plowed by garden

15 Wednesday  Helped G. Dow pull stumps and fight fire

16  Thursday  Put on hay rack and fixed it helped G.  Dow in PM

17  Friday Hay in barn helped G. Dow in PM

18  Saturday Helped G. Dow in AM made hayrack stand took saw dust out of well Harrowed corn

19  Sunday  Rained home all day

20  Monday Helped G. Dow plant spuds and stumps

21  Tuesday Rained helped wash give kids lessons  B. Spot  (Bred Spot)

22 Wednesday Pealed posts in AM. helped G. Dow in PM

23  Thursday Started grubbing for self G.Dow helped

24  Friday Grubed G. Dow helped

25  Saturday Grubed in AM to Red Cross Sale in PM

26  Sunday Home Dad Harrys and Uncle John here

27  Monday  Fixed bridge in AM  Grubed in PM

28  Tuesday Grubed G. Dow helped

29  Wednesday Harrowed spuds and helped wash

30 Thursday Rainy Piled brush grubed G. Dow helped

31  Friday  Took cream paid taxes grubed G. Dow helped all day

Farm Diary : April 1918

April (Tracie in red)

1  Monday Fixed up  harmire? and disced road

2  Tuesday Split wood plowed

3  Wednesday Split wood helped wash disced

4  Thursday Split wood and disced

5  Friday Split wood and disced

6  Saturday Filled holes in barn tested seed snowed odd jobs done

7  Sunday Home all day blizzard

8  Monday  Split + piled wood in shed eight more pigs

9  Tuesday Split Wood disced in PM  Harold took lesson

10  Wednesday Hauled wood in shed took load to Eatons disced and harrowed in PM

11  Thursday Helped wash and harrowed

12  Friday Cleaned oats planted spuds Mrs and Ethel Robinson here

13  Saturday  Sowed oats and wheat mixture To play and dance

14  Sunday Home all day gave Maurice a lesson Sanderson Mike and McCue here

15  Monday  Sowed oats and sweet clover  spot calf

16  Tuesday  Rained sowed a little oats  Rained to Osage

17  Wednesday Helped wash finished sowing

18  Thursday Sawed posts sharpened some burned and cleaned up rubbish

19  Friday  Sharpened posts cleaned up saw dust in the yard

20 Saturday To PR got oats ground loan extended

21  Sunday  To Mc Cues in PM Ogdens here

22  Monday Cut out fence row started driving posts

23  Tuesday drove post stretched wire

24  Wednesday  Helped wash finished fence

25 Thursday Stapled  wire changed tongue in spreader to Osage hauled one load of manure

26  Friday  Pansys calf  hauled manure in AM rained in PM

27  Saturday Hauled manure all day

28  Sunday Home all day rained all day

29  Monday Rained pealed posts B. Jenny  Hauled manure rained    (B Jenny probably means Bred Jenny)

30  Tuesday Hauled manure all day