Farm Diary : October 1921

October

1  Saturday Dug spuds three of us

2  Sunday  Finished spuds in AM went to Ball Game with Harry Ernest and Donald went home

3  Monday  Done odd jobs fenced straw stack Mrs Green here

4  Tuesday Fixed hay rake put sawdust on cellar started raking spud vines

5  Wednesday  Raked vines picked up some corn burnt some vines Sylvia went to PR

6  Thursday  Finished burning vines finished picking up corn took gang to shop got stove repaired

7  Friday  Started breaking broke hame to Osage and got a set broke some in eve (Breaking=He was using a Breaking Plow that he bought at a previous sale)

8  Saturday   Broke all day P.D. Osage

9  Sunday  Home Sylvia went to church

10  Monday  Finished breaking rained in AM

11  Tuesday  Broke out fence row east of house husked some fauder

12  Wednesday  Hauled manure in AM husked some fauder out in PM Lizzie here

13  Thursday  Plowed all day

14  Friday  Took cream hauled fauder corn

15  Saturday  Hauled fauder corn husked some P.D. at Osage in PM

16  Sunday  Home Lydia and Francis Vern and Ma here

17  Monday Took cream started plowing

18  Tuesday  Plowed

19  Wednesday  Uncle Isic here a few minutes plowed

20  Thursday  Finished plowing spud ground got calves at Kings

21  Friday  Took cream cleaned out hen house sprayed and put sand in ?  hauled manure on the garden Mrs Green Mrs Dow here

22  Saturday  Plowed garden husked corn in PM  P.D. at Pine Cone in eve Sylvia left

23  Sunday  To Kings after cow in pasture

24  Monday  Hauled fauder

25  Tuesday Hauled fauder

26  Wednesday  Hauled fauder rained

27  Thursday  Hauled straw worked on cellar

28  Friday  Took load of spuds to PR  3700?  Ibs 

29  Saturday  Born James Arthur Grandma here done odd jobs husked some corn PD at Ponsford in eve

30  Sunday  Dads Annas Emma and Rubert Mr Green and Mr Sanderson here

31  Monday  Took cream set some posts made gate out to hen house got Mildred  Hair?

Farm Diary : September 1921

September

1  Thursday  Mowed school house yard AM  Tied fauder in PM  Bob Maggie came

2  Friday  Went to PR to get lumber planed and get spud digger

3  Saturday  Helped Green shock corn unloaded load lumber and digger P.D.in Osage

4  Sunday  Home rainy

5  Monday  Helped G Dow fill silo raked school yard  P. D. Osage

6  Tuesday  Finished in AM  cleaned around straw stack

7  Wednesday  Cut clover second time to Jack Robinson’s sale scraped up around clover stack

8  Thursday  Piled lumber to Robinson’s after plumbs fixed manger to Greens after binder

9  Friday  Cut last piece of corn shocked some and shocked clover

10  Saturday  Shocked corn took binder back

11 Sunday  Home tied some shocks took ride west PM

12  Monday  Started work on hen house rainy

13  Tuesday  Worked on hen house rainy

14 Wednesday  Worked on hen house rainy

15  Thursday Worked on hen house rainy

16  Friday  Worked on hen house rainy

17  Saturday Done odd jobs spud crates all day

18  Sunday  Fixed some crates went to Will Weeks and got rye Ernest and Sylvia came

19  Monday  To Osage with cream cans home in the rain

20  Tuesday  Rainy all day

21  Wednesday  Rainy made some double trees  picked up corn in PM

22  Thursday  Made fence around corn started digging spuds by barn

23  Friday  Dug spuds

24  Saturday  Dug spuds P.D. Ponsford

25  Sunday  Went to Smileys after colts Ernest went along

26  Monday  Dug spuds

27  Tuesday  Dug spuds Donald Annett came

28  Wednesday  Dug spuds three of us

29  Thursday Dug spuds three of us

30  Friday Dug spuds three of us

Farm Diary: August 1921

August

1  Monday  Took sow spuds sweet corn to PR

2  Tuesday  Helped  wash rained  soled shoes Joe Robinson came after wagon box painted sashes

3  Wednesday  Took cream finished painting tongues and chicken house

4  Thursday  Got ready to stack oats in PM

5  Friday  Stacked took cream

6  Saturday  Dug post holes and mowed weeds strung posts P.D. at Evergreen

7  Sunday  Home Uncles here in PM

8  Monday  Finished stacking took cream saw thrashers

9  Tuesday  Made fence set posts

10  Wednesday  Finished fence cut some fauder

11  Thursday  Snofed? corn and cut fauder

12  Friday Tooks cream cut fauder snofed sweet corn rainy

13  Saturday  Snofed? and cut sweet corn P.D. at Ponsford

14  Sunday  Harry’s and Dad’s here  (He refers to Tracie’s parents as Dad's)

15 Monday  Banks here cut fauder in PM

16  Tuesday  Helped wash looked at colts in pasture Hedrick and Cecils here went fishing in eve

17  Wednesday Went fishing with company

18  Thursday  Company left I cut and snofed corn

19  Friday  Finished corn picked seed corn

20  Saturday Picked seed corn Glen and Lide Dow and Jensen kids here P.D. at Osage

21  Sunday Frank Rogers here also Annies got Maggie in eve

22  Monday  Thrashed Iowa helpers meal

23  Tuesday   Cut corn around ends by hand Stork Shower at Hendersons Got binder  ( Baby due in the fall?)

24  Wednesday  Got binder fixed cut corn

25  Thursday  Cut corn

26  Friday Cut corn took binder back shocked some

27  Saturday  Glen Dow and myself shocked fauder all day P.D. Evergreen

28  Sunday  To PR Frank Rogers came after us

29  Monday  Helped wash helped Robinsons fill silo

30  Tuesday  Frank Rogers Aunt Amelias Harrys Maggie and ourselves went to Park

31  Wednesday  Shocked fauder  F. Rogers left here went to PR with them helped Green shock corn in PM

Farm Diary : July 1921

July

1  Friday  Rhodis finished raking and bunching I too cream hauled in hay

2  Saturday  Finished hay Sexton Chas Robinson Olaf Sanderson Evert Crosby and Rhodis helped  P. D. at Lakes

3  Sunday  Home rained very hard

4  Monday  Washed in AM to Rhodis in PM P.D. at Osage

5  Tuesday  Cultivated spuds P.D. at Ponsford

6  Wednesday   Cultivated spuds AM  To Ponsford Celebration PM

7  Thursday  Cultivated spuds and corn  P.D. at Ponsford

8  Friday  Cultivated corn P. D. Evergreen

9  Saturday  Finished corn P.D. Ponsford

10  Sunday  Home in AM  To Osage Ball Game PM

11  Monday  Sprayed spuds Thresa took cream

12  Tuesday  Sprayed spuds Thresa washed

13  Wednesday  Sprayed spuds cultivated spuds

14  Thursday  Cultivated spuds

15  Friday  Cultivated spuds

16  Saturday  Cultivated spuds sprayed some  Maggie came P.D. at Ponsford

17  Sunday  To PR saw ballgame

18  Monday  Worked on hen house

19  Tuesday  Worked on hen house started painting fishing in eve

20  Wednesday  Painted on hen house

21  Thursday  Started cutting oats

22  Friday  Cut oats had trouble with binder

23  Saturday  I shocked Shobert got binder fixed but did not get much cut in PM  

24  Sunday  Home Uncle John’s Edward and Aunt Amelia here

25  Monday  To PR took down old sow did not ship  got Robinson’s binder in PM cut some

26  Tuesday Finished cutting oats and shocking

27  Wednesday  Rainy to School meeting put up scarecrow tried to shoot some

28  Thursday  Fixed west fence fixed hog fence Thresa and kids went to PR in eve

29  Friday  Finished hog fence Jack R. here after corn

30  Saturday  Painted on chicken house P.D. at Ponsford

31  Sunday  To Church in PM then to Greens

Farm Diary: June 1921

June

1  Wednesday  Got Sherwoods spuds helped wash replanted corn

2  Thursday  Grubed all day

3  Friday  Harrowed spuds P.D. at Eli Lakes

4  Saturday Cultivated corn and spuds around house

5  Sunday  Home AM to S.G. in PM

6  Monday  Took cream got load of slabs for creamery

7  Tuesday  Grubed

8  Wednesday Started cultivating corn

9  Thursday Cultivated corn

10  Friday  Cultivated corn  P.D. at Eli Lakes

11  Saturday  Finished corn

12  Sunday  Aunt Amelia’s here

13  Monday  To PR took veal Thresa and kids went

14  Tuesday  Rainy grubed some

15  Wednesday  Grubed all day

16  Thursday   Grubed and hauled stumps

17  Friday  Hauled stumps took out fence broke saw P.D. at Lakes

18  Saturday  Cultivated around house started on spuds

19  Sunday  To Harry’s and saw ball game

20  Monday  Plowed spuds

21  Tuesday  Plowed spuds

22  Wednesday  Plowed spuds and fauder corn

23  Thursday  Hoed quack cultivated some corn

24  Friday  Cultivated corn

25  Saturday  Cultivated corn P.D. at Osage

26  Sunday  Home in AM and PM

27  Monday  Cultivated corn sprayed spuds

28  Tuesday  Sprayed in AM to Hubbard P.D. at Oddfellows picnic

29  Wednesday  Rodis? started cutting hay   I sprayed spuds

30  Thursday  Finished spraying  Rodis  finished cutting and cultivated some spuds raked hay and we got in one load

Farm Diary: May 1921

May

1  Sunday Home Olive S. and Fred Z. here PM

2  Monday Fixed fence took cream to creamery finished plowing sod disced ground for spuds

3  Tuesday  Disced hauled manure took Thresa to found? party at Mrs Grims

4  Wednesday Hauled manure

5  Thursday  Hauled manure

6  Friday Hauled manure Sandersons here in PM

7  Saturday  Disced in AM  plowed with walking plow P.D. at  Osage in eve

8  Sunday To PR Emma and Ruberts there

9  Monday Took cream and plow to Osage  Plowed spud ground in PM

10  Tuesday Plowed all day

11  Wednesday Plowed and harrowed

12  Thursday  Disced Thresa and folks put on paper?

13  Friday Snowed very cold Disced and harrowed for corn

14  Saturday To Ponsford telephone meeting Ben Greens funeral P.D. In Ponsford in eve

15  Sunday To Osage and Glen Dows

16  Monday Harrowed  got spuds for Subert

17  Tuesday  Harrowed got planter planted sweet corn

18  Wednesday  Planted corn diped spuds Waymon Dow and other men here

19  Thursday  Finished planting field corn fixed potato planter got ready to plant spuds

20  Friday Started planting spuds

21  Saturday Planted Spuds P.D. at Ponsford

22  Sunday  Took stock to pasture

23  Monday Planted spuds

24  Tuesday Planted spuds finished

25  Wednesday  Took load of spuds to PR paid taxes

26  Thursday  Took load of spuds to PR

27  Friday Got spuds out of cellar for Sherwood To school picnic  for dinner harrowed in PM got corn planter P.D. at Ponsford

28  Saturday  Done odd jobs Planted fauder corn P.D. at Wolf Lake

29  Sunday Home Francis and Elma V. here

30  Monday Replanted some corn to Osage dinner in the hall ball game in PM

31  Tuesday Replanted corn started harrowing spuds Mc Kinley came after spuds

Farm Diary: April 1921

April

1  Friday Corded wood got ground feed P. Card party

2  Saturday Hauled hay and straw P.D. at Ponsford

3  Sunday Dad’s here to Albert Georges funeral

4  Monday Salted hides and sent them hauled straw

5  Tuesday Drove Juddie Thresa went to PR I hauled lumber in PM

6  Wednesday  Hauled lumber rained Thresa came home

7  Thursday Hauled lumber

8  Friday  Hauled lumber  P.D. at Osage

9  Saturday Hauled lumber P.D. at PR

10  Sunday  Home all day

11  Monday Hauled lumber started discing in PM

12  Tuesday  Hauled lumber disced in PM

13  Wednesday Unloaded lumber and disced

14  Thursday  Disced and harrowed

15  Friday Got last load of lumber traded calvs with Knoop took cream plowed in PM

16  Saturday Cleaned out calf barn fixed garden fence plowed P D at Ponsford

17  Sunday Home  John Batemans here

18  Monday Plowed cleaned grane in PM

19  Tuesday  Treated grane harrowed

20  Wednesday Harrowed rained manured and disced garden

21  Thursday  Sowed oats

22  Friday Rained  scaled and piled lumber fixed bridge Thresa took cream  I took ?? of the house

23  Saturday Sowed oats PD at Osage in eve

24  Sunday  Home I  and kids Thresa to Menahga

25  Monday  Hauled manure  finished oats

26  Tuesday Rainy took cream helped wash plowed potato ground and disced some

27  Wednesday Planted early spuds made garden hauled manure

28  Thursday  Hauled manure and plowed  Thresa cleaned house

29  Friday Hauled manure and plowed fixed house roof

30  Saturday  Hauled manure and plowed rained in eve

Farm Diary : March 1921

March

1  Tuesday Got in a load of straw cut wood

2  Wednesday Helped wash helped put up creamery ice

3  Thursday Cut wood in front of hen house P.D. Osage

4  Friday Cut wood where I wanted new barn

5  Saturday  Snowed got feed ground Francis and girls here got in load of wood

6  Sunday To Greens

7  Monday Hauled pole wood butchered a calf in PM

8  Tuesday  helped wash choped some, top election took Arthurs and Knoops meat along

9  Wednesday Choped and cleared some around building spot

10  Thursday  Choped  and cleared some around building spot

11 Friday  Finished clearing and hauled into a pile

12  Saturday Choped pole wood  Francis and Lola here

13  Sunday Home Dads Lola Percy C. and Orvel S. here

14  Monday Choped pole wood

15  Tuesday  Choped pole wood

16  Wednesday Hauled in wood to pile, split kitchen wood

17  Thursday Got in load of straw and wood for kitchen

18  Friday Cut dead wood in hog pen got two loads in kitchen

19  Saturday Took cream sawed wood for myself

20  Sunday  Sawed wood for Sexton and C. Pool

21  Monday To PR with three veals and one hog

22  Tuesday Split wood and put it in the kitchen

23  Wednesday Split wood and put it in the kitchen

24  Thursday  Split wood on green wood pile

25  Friday split wood finished wood in kitchen

26  Saturday Split wood all day

27 Easter Sunday Went on schoolmarm hunt cold and ??  Francis and Percy here in PM

28  Monday Split wood P.D. at Osage in eve

29  Tuesday Split wood

30 Wednesday Split wood  Pansy fresh

31  Thursday Split wood finished in AM Got feed ground in PM

Farm Diary: February 1921

February

1  Tuesday Skidded logs

2  Wednesday Skidded logs

3  Thursday  Skidded logs AM  got in wood and bedding PM

4  Friday  To see Gaims?AM  Took Thresa to McLaughlins shower  P.D. at Osage

5  Saturday  Husked some fauder and butchered susan

6  Sunday  Home Fred and Norrel? here

7  Monday To PR with meat

8  Tuesday  Hauled straw and husked fauder

9  Wednesday Hauled oat straw cleaned out mangers got in wood

10  Thursday  Hauled pole wood

11  Friday  Took cream hauled pole wood

12  Saturday Worked on hen house door to telephone meeting

13  Sunday To Birks in PM

14  Monday Cleaned out hen house made chicken crate husked corn

15  Tuesday  To Alberts sale sold to roosters

16  Wednesday Hauled logs to saw mill

17  Thursday  Hauled logs to saw mill

18  Friday  Hauled logs to saw mill

19  Saturday  Hauled logs to saw mill Got feed ground at Osage PM

20  Sunday Home Harrys here in P.M.

21 Monday  Hauled logs

22  Tuesday  Hauled logs

23  Wednesday  Hauled logs

24  Thursday Hauled logs and wood

25  Friday Hauled logs finished husking fauder To Farm Bearow meeting in PM

26 Saturday To PR on buisnes.  Emma came

27  Sunday To PR Emma went back

28  Monday To Rockies sale sold four roosters

Farm Diary: January 1921

January

1  Saturday To PR at Annies Snowstorm

2  Sunday Home

3  Monday  Hauled fauder

4  Tuesday Hauled straw both kinds

5  Wednesday Hauled in load of wood and some fauder

6  Thursday Hauled fauder

7  Friday Hauled fauder Fred Stuve came

8  Saturday Hauled one load of fauder chored played for dance at Osage in eve

9  Sunday  Dads Harrys and Birks here

10  Monday Put roosts in hen house

11  Tuesday Helped wash husked some fauder

12  Wednesday Hauled straw

13  Thursday Cut logs Fred Stuve helped

14  Friday Cut logs in AM husked some corn got kids

15  Saturday Cut logs in  AM came home in blizzard hauled and loaded wood to card party in PM

16  Sunday Blizzard Home all day

17  Monday Took load of wood to PR and veal

18  Tuesday Cut logs in AM to telephone meeting in PM

19  Wednesday Cut logs all day

20  Thursday Cut logs all day

21  Friday I husked corn all day  Fred went to PR  P.D. at Osage

22  Saturday  Husked corn in Am got it ground in PM

23  Sunday  Home Glen Dows here

24  Monday  Cut logs all day

25  Tuesday  Cut logs all day

26  Wednesday  Hauled straw and some wood

27  Thursday  Skidded logs

28  Friday  Skidded logs Thresa to Crosby’s shower

29  Saturday  Skidded logs played at Ponsford Thresa card party at Osage

30  Sunday  To John Robinsons Fred here

31  Monday Skidded logs

Farm Diary: December 1920

December

1  Wednesday Hauled manure all day

2  Thursday Got in fauder and husked some

3  Friday Husked fauder

4  Saturday  Got some more fauder and husked it.  P.D. at Osage

5  Sunday  Home to Osage after grit and gaso?

6  Monday  Husked fauder got feed ground

7  Tuesday  Helped wash hauled straw

8  Wednesday  Husked fauder hauled in some got in load ground

9  Thursday  Husked fauder got straw loaded load of wood

10  Friday  To PR with load of wood Dad’s Christmas presents

11  Saturday  Chored burned brush around hen house

12  Sunday  Home + Mr. Greens here

13  Monday  Snow got some poles to make wood racks

14  Tuesday  Made wood rack helped wash

15  Wednesday  Worked on wood racks got in some fauder husked some went to Arthurs sale at store

16  Thursday  Finished rack hauled straw husked some fauder loaded wood

17  Friday  To PR with wood

18  Saturday  Got load of fauder husked some Thresa and kids to PR

19  Sunday  Home Sherwood here after spuds in eve Sextons also

20  Monday  Butchered veal and hog

21  Tuesday  To PR with wood and veal

22  Wednesday  Got load of clover straw, butchered pig to Robinsons loaded some wood

23  Thursday  To PR with wood took out fire insurance

24  Friday  Put up stove in hen house got in load of wood to school program in PM

25  Saturday  Got in load of fauder Dad’s and Cliff Colman here P.D. at Osage

26  Sunday  Home all day

27  Monday  Got in load of Oats straw took sow to Robinsons

28  Tuesday  Went after sow helped wash took cow to Robinsons

29  Wednesday  Butchered got load of fauder  got R’s male hog

30  Thursday  To Ponsford to Dairy meeting

31  Friday Husked corn got feed ground at Stevens