Tracie's Treasures

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Sunday, April 8, 2018

Farm Diary: May 1925

May

1  Friday  Hauled manure

2 Saturday Hauled manure

3  Sunday To Rob Smith after oats home

4  Monday Hauled manure

5  Tuesday Hauled manure

6 Wednesday Hauled manure

7  Thursday Disced planted sweet corn

8  Friday Finished planting sweet corn disced

9  Saturday Harrowed in AM to Bob Smith got oats took them to PR and got them ground in PM To Osage to farewell party for Robert Crosby in eve

10 Sunday watched for hawk Home cold

11 Monday Harrowed spud ground got in load of hay

12 Tuesday Planted spuds

13 Wednesday Finished planting seven acres of spuds Thresa went to Mrs Shobers party

14 Thursday Hauled manure started discing corn ground

15 Friday Disced and harrowed corn ground  Store at Osage burned in eve

16 Saturday Harrowed in PM Thresa and kids went to Osage

17 Sunday Put up swing burned rubbish along road side Vern Skinny Midg and Mrs S here in PM

18 Monday Harrowed in AM Sick in PM  Planted Watermellons

19 Tuesday Bought planter worked all day on it  Planted popcorn Ault here in eve

20 Wednesday Started planting corn  Anna’s baby died

21 Thursday Finished planting field corn plowed

22 Friday Thresa went to Bemidji to funeral I finished plowing patch east of house harrowed and planted some sweet corn had storm in eve rained all night

23 Saturday  Rained all day Thrashed beans Thresa came home

24 Sunday Home Sandersons here in PM Thresa and kids went to church in eve

25 Monday Worked on Osage Dam in AM harrowed corn

26 Tuesday  Harrowed all day

27 Wednesday Harrowed Planted beans to teachers party at Osage in eve

28 Thursday Loaded a load of hay to school picnic unloaded hay when we got home

29 Friday Town Board met to view roads To commencement exercises in eve

30 Saturday Unloaded  a load of hay and loaded another  Thresa and kids went to PR I helped fight fire NE of Osage  Ilene and Skinny here

31 Sunday Home real warm To Mc Laughlins cottage fishing