Farm Diary: February 1925

February

1  Sunday  Dads here

2 Monday Hauled bolts quit

3  Tuesday To Will Crandels after 100 bu of oats

4  Wednesday Chored unloaded oats hauled wood PM Sivet fresh

5  Thursday  Hauled wood in AM for self in PM for Sexton

6  Friday Choped wood Frances here Thresa and Frances went to visit school

7 Saturday To PR Frances went home with us May Sexton came home with us Little spot fresh

8  Sunday Home in AM to sawmill Crandels and Brewers in PM

9  Monday helped wash and chored got a load of clover straw for bedding put a load of Brewers hay in the barn

10 Tuesday Smith here grinding and sawing wood also sawed for Sexton Geo Mayer helped Snow Fresh

11 Wednesday  Cleared up around wood pile board day so went to visit school

12 Thursday Helped Sexton haul a load of  hay in AM corded wood in kitchen and got another load of clover straw

13 Friday Unloaded straw piled wood in kitchen

14 Saturday Piled wood in kitchen

15 Sunday Home most of the day to Osage and traded some

16 Monday Chored sick in AM hauled wood for Sexton in PM

17 Tuesday Hauled wood for Sexton in AM for myself in PM

18 Wednesday Hauled wood cleaned chicken house

19 Thursday Snow storm done odd jobs shelled seed corn and hauled some wood

20 Friday Snowstorm dressed 5 chickens hauled in some wood

21 Saturday To PR Dads birthday  Emma and Anna down Anna and Sexton came back with us ( Dads is Theresa’s father Louis Stuve)

22 Sunday Chored Took Anna back in PM to church at Osage  ?? Clausin spoke

23 Monday Hauled wood

24 Tuesday Helped Beck saw wood hauled a load of wood

25 Wednesday Hauled wood all day sent cream

26 Thursday Hauled wood in AM Put hay in the barn PM

27 Friday Hauled wood helped Sexton with car sent Roosters

28 Saturday Chored to town meeting

Farm Diary: January 1925

January

1  Thursday  To Dads New Years dinner had goose

2 Friday Butchered a calf

3  Saturday  Took some beef to camp sow to Becks and oats to Osage to get ground hauled some wood inkitchen

4  Sunday Home chored cut Snows horns off May here in PM did not go to church Thresa was sick

5  Monday Fixed grindstone Otterson here bought beef cut some poles to make bolt racks to Osage after ogger

6  Tuesday  Made bolt rack stormy

7  Wednesday  Cut wood To Osage after ground feed

8  Thursday Hauled bolts for Otterson Lizzie here

9 Friday Hauled bolts for Otterson

10 Saturday Choped wood to PR in PM with car

11 Sunday To Dads took Francis and Hellen back

12 Monday Took beef to Ottersons hauled bolts also

13 Tuesday Choped wood and chored helped wash

14 Wednesday Hauled bolts

15 Thursday  Choped wood and chored

16 Friday Hauled bolts Thresa went to Lizzies

17 Saturday Chored and chopped wood

18 Sunday Chored to Osage in PM Vern and Bill Ford and Francis here when we returned

19 Monday Took beef to Ottersons hauled bolts also

20 Tuesday Chored and cut wood to telephone meeting

21 Wednesday Hauled bolts

22 Thursday Chored and cut wood

23 Friday  Hauled bolts

24 Saturday  To PR Mrs Sexton went along Thresa tied two quilts at her mothers took trailer and brought back 16 bus of Oats

25 Sunday Home to church in eve

26 Monday  Hauled bolts

27 Tuesday Helped wash to Creamery meeting got sack of wheat at  Sandersons

28 Wednesday  Hauled bolts

29 Thursday Chored and cut wood

30 Friday Hauled bolts

31 Saturday Chopped wood

Farm Diary: December 1924

December

1  Monday Stacked corn fauder Glen Dow helped

2  Tuesday Finished fauder to Mongers sale in PM

3 Wednesday Helped wash Carvers here  put some siding on hog house in PM

4 Thursday Put on siding clothing man here

5  Friday Cleaned barn Watkins man here and made wagon reach fixed rack loaded wood

6 Saturday To PR with wood got oats ground

7  Sunday To Jim Robinsons in PM Church in eve

8  Monday Boarded up grain bin in barn

9  Tuesday Worked on barn bin loaded a load of wood just one load in shed

10 Wednesday To PR with wood

11 Thursday  To Dows after siding put on siding in PM

12 Friday To PR with wood

13 Saturday chored loaded a load of wood in PM cold

14 Sunday To Liviness in PM to church in eve

15 Monday To PR with wood 9.00

16 Tuesday Chored loaded wood very cold

17 Wednesday To PR with wood 9.00 and oats for grinding

18 Thursday Chored loaded wood cold

19 Friday Took wood Dad’s Xmas present 4.50

20 Saturday Chored hauled a load of wood in kitchen unloaded rack greased wagon very cold

21 Sunday Home fixed up kids things to practice and filled sacks for Xmas tree

22 Monday To Osage stormy chored

23 Tuesday  Butchered ormier Sexton helped to Xmas tree in eve

24 Wednesday To Osage in AM  to try and sell some meat to PR in PM Geo Mayer and May Sexton went along

25 Thursday  Christmas Dads here for dinner put sows in barn

26 Friday Butchered two pigs Sexton helped

27 Saturday Very cold chored to Osage in eve with cream put up wood notice

28 Sunday Load lumber chored cold

29 Monday Helped Sexton butcher a hog here

30 Tuesday To PR with lumber

31 Wednesday Took Sexton hog to Osage  Got sled bolts chored cleaned hen house took sow to Becks

Farm Diary: November 1924

November

1  Saturday  Plowed in AM to PR in PM  Uncle Jeff  and G Dow came in eve, went to meeting in Osage

2  Sunday Uncle Jeff went home we went to PR Ruberts and Annas there.

3  Monday Plowed

4  Tuesday  Election to Osage all day and night county votes

5  Wednesday Plowed Queen fresh got in calf in eve

6 Thursday Ground froze G Dow here done odd jobs in AM Plowed in PM  G Dow here in eve

7 Friday  Helped Sanderson thrashing I came back and got ready for thrashers G Dow took my place thrashing

8 Saturday I thrashed To PR in PM Grandmas Birthday

9  Sunday Home Geo Mayer here also Erwin Craft here

10  Monday Plowed garden  Beckers loaded cattle  Done SG Dows chores he went deer hunting

11 Tuesday Finished plowing around the house and barn  Chores for SG To Osage in eve to program and dance I played

12 Wednesday Chored  got water on to butcher pig done SG chores

13 Thursday Took pig to Arthurs done SG chores went hunting sacked up seed corn

14  Friday Hauled a load of fouder, took up pump to SG to chores took pump to shop

15 Saturday Made stall in barn started feeding calf and cow to butcher

16 Sunday Home put trailer hitch on car  Hank Nun ( Nunn) came after horses Dad here in PM

17 Monday Put chickens in hen house sacked oats fixed trailer loaded calves and went to PR shipped calves Lizzie came home with us

18 Tuesday Started a feed manger set posts

19 Wednesday  Finished manger moved chicken coop cleaned them out

20 Thursday Fixed  over house under stairs

21 Friday Worked on house under stairs in AM butchered calf in PM Thresa  went to visit school

\22 Saturday Hung door under stairs made towl roller cut up beef took some to sawmill sold  Geo Mayer one 1/4

23 Sunday  Went hunting and set some traps  To Greens in PM

24 Monday Banked house fixed hay rack loaded wood

25 Tuesday To PR took wood

26 Wednesday Hauled some fauder to program  Tearpark school and box social

27 Thursday Thank given unloaded fauder

28 Friday Hauled fauder

29 Saturday  Hauled fauder Francis here  Herlene here in eve

30 Sunday To Dads