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

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.23 too much on Sat morn

.24 to much on Wed. morning

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.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

Farm Diary: August 1916

August

1 Tuesday  Helped Glen with team hay

2 Wednesday Mowed for Glen with team

3 Thursday Helped Glen with team hay

4 Friday Shocked Rye in AM turned hay rake 3 hours

5 Saturday helped Glen, Thresa to PR, no turn

6 Sunday R.B. Spot,  Had ice cream, To Ponsford and Shell Lake in PM

7 Monday Cut oats for myself

8 Tuesday Cuts oats for myself, Mother left

9 Wednesday  Rainy, To help Glen nothing doing

10 Thursday Helped wash, fixed fence, took cream

11 Friday  Hoed and plowed cabbage, went berrying

12 Saturday Cut late oats for self

13 Sunday To Japs, Harry’s there  ( No mention of Marvin’s Second Birthday)

14 Monday Cut Oats for self

15 Tuesday  Finished oats, cows got out in eve

16 Wednesday  Fixed fence, helped wash, shocked Glens 2 ? Rye

17 Thursday  To Osage and Will Overmans, first of ? ?, Mable calf folks

18 Friday Fixed the well, took the cream to Osage

19 Saturday Worked on the dam, to Osage in the eve

20 Sunday Home all day it rained, drove over to Glens

21 Monday A new calf , rained, Bryan came

22 Tuesday Up to Osage, over to Glens to shock in PM

23 Wednesday  Helped wash, helped Glen shock from 10 o’clock on

24 Thursday Helped Glen with 3 horses from 11 to 3 , I worked till 6

25 Friday Helped Glen shock from 15 after 10 on

26 Saturday Helped Glen with team in AM, made fence, rained PM

27 Sunday Over to Dad’s, took Japs, Bryan came back with me

28 Monday  Bryan turned sheaves, I made fence, Glen here about 11 started stacking in PM

29 Tuesday Stacked oats, Glen and Bryan helped

30 Wednesday  Stacked oats, Glen and Bryan helped

31 Thursday Rained, stacked one load and turned and shocked in the AM, Bryan and I finished stacking

Farm Diary: July 1916

July

1 Saturday Plowed  spuds and beans, Bryan helped Green saw

2 Sunday Stayed home in AM, Went fishing in PM

3 Monday Plowed corn and Japs spuds, fixed cabbage patch

4 Tuesday Went to PR

5 Wednesday  plowed corn AM, PR with load of lumber

6 Thursday Went to PR with a load of lumber

7  Friday To Osage in AM, plowed spuds in PM

8 Saturday  Went to PR with a load of posts

9 Sunday Stayed home in the AM, fishing in the PM

10  Monday Plowed spuds

11 Tuesday Plowed spuds, Bryan left

12 Wednesday Helped wash, B. Jenny, plowed beans and corn and Japs garden

13 Thursday Spayed spuds, worked on hog fence

14 Friday Took cream, worked on hog fence

15 Saturday Set out Cabbage plants, sprayed spuds. set out cabbage

16 Sunday To PR down home

17 Monday Finished hog fence

18 Tuesday Sprayed potatoes, rained at night

19 Wednesday helped wash, to see about hay, sprayed spuds

20 Thursday B. Bess, plowed beans, plowed corn

21 Friday  Helped Robinson hay, got load of hay

22 Saturday Helped Glen Dow hay, plowed corn, in eve we went to dance with team

23 Sunday Picked berries , went to Dows

24 Monday Plowed and sprayed spuds, rained at night

25 Tuesday Helped wash, to PR Mother came

26 Wednesday Rainy, sprayed spuds

27 Thursday Plowed and sprayed spuds,  B. Ronie

28 Friday Plowed spuds and cabbage, helped G.Dow with team PM

29 Saturday Helped ? work on binder, no tundl?

30 Sunday Shiverea John A. Amelia , Japs, Bryan, Mother here, Frances stayed

31 Monday Helped Glen with team hay

I think when there is a B. that means an animal was born and named.

Grandpa wrote all the diary entries in July

Farm Diary: June 1916

June

1 Thursday Fixed fence, cut brush, made pig pen

2 Friday Cleared brush, went to Glen Dows

3 Saturday  Set post, fixed fence, school entertainment

4 Sunday Stayed home, Will Overmons was here and ?? Ogden

5 Monday Frost, pulled stumps and plowed

6 Tuesday rained, harrowed and plowed, planted beans

7  Wednesday Harrowed and plowed, planted beans

8 Thursday  Harrowed, sowed , bagus/ 7 pigs, made garden fence

9 Friday Went to PR , Frances here, went to Farmers Club

10 Saturday  helped Glen Dow log,  Bome Snow, Thresa went to Greens

11 Sunday Home, Japs, Lydia, Eva here, to Sexton’s in eve

12 Monday Harrowed all day

13 Tuesday Helped Dow log Japs Glens here in eve

14 Wednesday Made garden fence planted pumpkins    ??

15 Thursday Fixed fence, up to Japs, replanted corn

16 Friday Made fence took cream, planted corn, socked good

17 Saturday lost sow went to PR

18 Sunday  To home in AM to Greens in PM

19 Monday Planted spuds and corn, plowed  ??

20 Tuesday Hoed cabbage, plowed corn, B. Spot

21 Wednesday To Osage Plowed corn

22 Thursday Rained, cut poles, fixed harness

23 Friday Cut poles, made hog safe fence

24 Saturday Made hog fence, Made longe, Japs here, to Osage in eve

25 Sunday To home in AM, To Japs in PM

26 Monday Took Jersie to Wogels.  Moved little house.

27 Tuesday Plowed spuds, Bryan here ( Bryan was Jim’s brother from Iowa)

28 Wednesday Took mares to Osage in AM, Rain in the PM

29 Thursday Took mare to Osage in AM,  ? ? in PM

30 Friday Plowed spuds, Bryan helped G. Dow saw

Farm Diary: May 1916

May

1 Monday  Snowed in morn, fixed double tree, disced in the PM

2 Tuesday   Born Prince, Cultivated for oats

3 Wednesday cultivated a + harrowed in Am hauled manure in PM

4 Thursday sowed oats

5 Friday sowed oats

6 Saturday sowed oats, traded for cows in the eve

7 Sunday Made exchange to Japs in PM

8 Monday sowed oats in AM very windy, made fence in the PM

9 Tuesday finished sowing,  Theresa to PR

10 Wednesday B. Flora, hauled manure plowed B. Daisy

11 Thursday helped wash, plowed, hauled manure

12 Friday Plowed all day with gang

13 Saturday Plowed rained about 3PM

14 Sunday Rained at home. Louis here

15 Monday shelled and tested seed corn, went up to Osage

16 Tuesday Plowed all day

17 Wednesday Plowed hauled manure, Jap hauled me some logs

18 Thursday hauled and skidded logs, sawed my lumber  in PM

19 Friday Finished the lumber, harrowed in PM A calf

20 Saturday Went to Lorens after potatoes, to Farmers Club in eve

21 Sunday Stayed home it rained all day

22 Monday Cut Potatoes in AM, Planted in PM, Japs here

23 Tuesday Planted potatoes

24 Wednesday Went to PR and Lorens after potatoes

25 Thursday Cut potatoes in AM, got Flora out of mire

26 Friday Planted Potatoes

27 Saturday Got Flora up, finished our spuds, planted Japs

28 Sunday Chored, up to Japs

29 Monday Planted corn, up to Osage

30 Tuesday Helped wash, fixed fence, butchered

31 Wednesday Went to PR all day

Farm Diary: April 1916

April

1 Saturday cut saw logs in am, hauled logs in PM

2 Sunday Anna here went to Japs

3 Monday hauled logs, cut + piled wood

4 Tuesday Cut wood up to Japs

5 Wednesday Japs here sheared the sheep

6 Thursday Jap here sheared sheep

7 Friday Cut and piled wood

8 Saturday Cut + hauled wood + logs up to Osage in eve

9 Sunday Chored all morn.  Japs here in PM

10 Monday Cut + piled wood up to Osage in eve

11 Tuesday Cut wood went to Farmers Club in PM

12 Wednesday Helped wash, piano tuner here

13 Thursday Up to Osage after wood sawing, cut wood in PM

14 Friday Cut and piled wood fixed fence

15 Saturday  Went to PR after wagon and disc

16 Sunday Chored in AM. Took Japs wagon back in PM

17 Monday Drug wood, cleared yard made hot bed

18 Tuesday Got load of fodder and straw, started to disc

19 Wednesday  Disced rained about 4PM

20 Thursday Fixed drill, rained

21 Friday dug up stumps + fences, up to Osage

22 Saturday Pulled stumps, disced in PM, up to Osage in eve

23 Sunday Went over home took Minnie along (Tracie’s  sister)

24 Monday disced all day

25 disced in AM Up to Sexton’s to saw

26 Wednesday Helped wash, up to Sextons, disced in PM

27 Thursday Disced all day

28 Friday disced all day, got some fodder

29 Saturday Harrowed all day went up to Osage in eve

30 Sunday Chored, Japs here all day

Farm Diary: March 1916

March

1 Wednesday  Got potatoes and cut cordwood

2 Thursday  helped Glen Dow cut wood

3 Friday Chopped started sawing loaded wood

4 Saturday Went to PR with a load of wood

5 Sunday Chored Glen Dows were here

6 Monday put in an axe handle, in AM went to Dows  + Osage in PM

7 Tuesday Helped wash, cleaned kitchen

8 Wednesday Cut wood went to Japs + Osage

9 Thursday Cut Ties, loaded up sold R.H. Oats

10 Friday Took a load of ties to PR

11 Saturday bought Star cut wood, got stuck with load

12 Sunday Dad’s, Japs, Harrys, Greens, and neighbor girls here

13 Monday Fixed kitchen door in AM, hauled wood and posts in PM

14 Tuesday Worked in timber all day, up to Japs in eve

15 Wednesday  no entry

16 Thursday  no entry

17 Friday Cut wood, bought 13 sheep up to Japs

18 Saturday  Fixed sheep pen up to Osage in eve

19 Sunday  Chored all morn, up to Japs in the PM

20 Monday Hauled straw + fodder.  Uncle John here.

21 Tuesday Cut post, fixed pig pen

22 Wednesday Worked in timber, cut posts

23 Thursday  Cut posts in AM, hauled fodder to Osage

24 Friday New calf, hauled straw snowed

25 Saturday Hauled fodder, Theresa went home

26 Sunday Japs and ourselves went to dads

27 Monday Cut wood started sawing pile

28 Tuesday  Cut wood AM, cut saw logs in PM

29 Wednesday Cut wood, cut poles in AM

30 Thursday Rained, fixed wagon toung

31 Friday Cut saw logs all day, Japs here for dinner

Farm Diary : February 1916

February ( Tracie in red)

1  Tuesday  hauled oats Glen took load to S.R.R. 18 below

2  Wednesday sold hay  hauled straw 20 below

3 Thursday  hauled fodder got fanning mill 20 b

4  Friday went to town sold 15 Lbs spuds 18 b

5  Saturday fixed celar for Lorn hauled a load of spuds to Lorn

6  Sunday Went over home Emma and Rubert there a bad blizzard

7  Monday sacked spuds hauled a load up to Lorns

8 Tuesday sacked spuds hauled a load up to Lorns

9 Wednesday Sacked potatoes hauled two loads a fruit to Lorns

10 Thursday Fanned Oats in the PM helped O.Odgen

11 Friday Took a load of oats to S.R.R.

12 Saturday Fanned oats went to town around Harry’s and Dads

13 Sunday  Fanned Oats Alberts here Got fodder

14 Monday Took a load of oats to S.R.R.

15 Tuesday  Packed went up town dads here in eve, Jap all night

16 Wednesday Moved over to S.R.R. at Japs for dinner and night.

17 Thursday Fixed up around the place. Up to Japs for meals

18 Friday Stayed at Japs, brought Tracie and Marvin down our first night here.

19 Saturday unpacked things and straightened around got some wood

20 Sunday Chored all morn. Japs here in the PM.

 21 Monday Got grind stone and log chain fixed  ?

22 Tuesday Ground axe cut cord wood  ? ?

23 Wednesday Cut Cord wood loaded up

24 Thursday Blizzard AM  Cut posts

25 Friday Took load of cord wood to PR

26 Saturday Got up a load of dry wood

27 Sunday Chored in AM Went to c. Pools in PM

28 Monday Hauled oats from Japs

29 Tuesday Hauled Straw from Japs.

So..the S.R.R. is the Farm.  Does it stand for Shell River Road…Shell River Ranch??

Japs is Jasper Mc Kee he was married to Minnie (Tracie’s sister) not sure where they lived but it must have been close to the farm.

1916 Farm Diary: January 1916

January

Some days  Jim wrote and some days Tracie

1 Saturday  bought Jenny  sold beef
2 Sunday  Wrote letters in the PM went to Vandventers in AM
3 Monday  Went to town in AM Cleaned the cellar in PM
4 Tuesday   Hauled fodder went to town in PM
5 Wednesday  Had a bad blizzard not much doing
6 Thursday 31 below  ? straw for sale
7 Friday hauled fodder, hauled straw, Loaded hay
8 Saturday Took a load of hay to S.R.R.
9 Sunday AM chored went over home in PM snow
10 Monday  another blow out helped dad haul fodder
11 Tuesday broke roads went to town loaded hay
12 Wednesday no mail bad blizzard  washed 36 below
13 Thursday hauled fodder broke roads got supper 43  ( I think this means –43 below)
14 Friday  hauled a load of hay to S. R.R.  45
15 Saturday hauled straw and fodder  wind blew  cold
16 Sunday Chored in AM Dad and Harry’s here visiting #
17 Monday Hauled hay to S.R.R a blow out
18 Tuesday loaded a load of hay and fodder  Put oil stove in  ?  ?
19 Tuesday took load to S.R.R. wind and snow
20 Thursday butchered I loaded fodder wind blew
21 Friday Helped Al saw wood played for a dance at Mickels
22 Saturday A bad blizzard in AM went to town in PM
23 Sunday Went over home all day.  Fair
24 Monday  Took a load to S.R.R.  Fair
25 Tuesday loaded fodder two loads Windy snow
26 Wednesday packed sorted beans windy snow
27 Thursday Washed Patched shoes snow
28 Friday Took load to S.R.R. snowed in PM 30 below
29 Saturday Hauled straw went to town PM snowed
30 Sunday  Harrys and folks came surprised JXH.  26 below  fair
31 Monday Hauled two loads of oats up to Alecks.  Wyman Dow here.
Fodder is any feed that is hauled to cattle, it can be hay ,straw, silage, beans etc…
I don’t know what the S.R.R. stands for. ( Shell River ??)