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

Farm Diary : November 1920

November

1  Monday Snowstorm  Jobed? banked house

2  Tuesday Fixed fence went to election got in load of wood and some fauder

3  Wednesday  Got some clover straw at Siegfords plowed patch north of gardens

4  Thursday  Plowed some went to Harrnis sale

5  Friday  Hauled in sweet corn fauder and plowed

6  Saturday Plowed Thresa to Osage in eve PD at Ponsford

7  Sunday Home took Knoops oats back in eve

8  Monday Took load of spuds to Farmers

9  Tuesday Got chickens of McLonghlins.  Worked on hen house.

10  Wednesday helped wash fixed stalls for six hored??

11  Thursday Worked on hen house finished stalls went to Osage Celebration in eve

12  Friday Put sleds together to Osage after kids in eve Sherwood got spuds

13  Saturday Butchered got in some fauder PD at Osage

14  Sunday To PR to see folks

15  Monday Cut up neat hauled straw

16  Tuesday To PR with spuds home at 10 o’clock

17  Wednesday Helped wash sacked seed corn peddlers here mudded up born

18  Thursday To Pr with spuds $1.20 pr crat

19  Friday Helped Payson butcher got some fauder

20  Saturday To PR with beef and wood PD at Osage

21  Sunday Home all day snowed

22  Monday Hauled straw

23  Tuesday Helped clean house

24  Wednesday Got wood from Saw mill Thresa sick gripp  ( Grip or grippe was like the Flu)

25  Thursday Home Thanksgiving Got some more wood Dads and Clif here  PD at Ponsford

26  Friday  Helped Thresa with work washed some

27  Saturday Corded wood Francis here husked some corn

28  Sunday Home all day rainy

29  Monday Worked on hen house put in windows

30 Tuesday Washed hauled straw and fauder

Farm Diary : October 1920

October

1  Friday  Strewed crates in my field hauled in hay

2  Saturday Dug spuds all day  PD to Ponsford

3  Sunday  Home picked up some corn Mrs Knoop here

4  Monday Dug spuds

5  Tuesday  Dug spuds finished about 1040 bus

6  Wednesday Fixed crates worked on cellar top

7  Thursday Worked on cellar got in some corn

8  Friday Finished cellar top sold some spuds to saw mill

9  Saturday Got in some corn done odd jobs to PR

10  Sunday To Ruberts home in eve

11  Monday Took out fence fenced stacks to Stroms sale

12  Tuesday Took Strums crate back fixed bridge

13  Wednesday Finished bridge

14  Thursday Took Marvin to Dr. fenced oats ground

15  Friday Took cream took out some posts tared? granery rook, took some more posts out

16  Saturday  Plowed around stacks worked on hen house

17  Sunday  Home Francis and Bob here  To Snellman

18  Monday Burned vines

19  Tuesday helped wash husced some corn hauled in thrashing wood

20  Wednesday Helped Sanderson thrash thrashers here for supper

21  Thursday Finished thrashing cleaned up around stacks fenced straw put some on root cellar

22  Friday To PR with chickens

23  Saturday Put roofing on hen house PD Ponsford

24  Sunday  Home Aunt Bunts here

25  Monday Alberts after colts hauled manure in PM

26  Tuesday Hauled manure and disced

27  Wednesday Plowed and disced

28  Thursday Froze in morning plowed in PM

29  Friday To Osage sale bought colt, disced

30  Saturday Plowed and disced

31  Sunday Minnies Harrys Dads and Alberts here

Farm Diary: September 1920

September

1  Wednesday  Cut corn in AM rainy in PM Tillie and kids here

2  Thursday  Cut corn all day

3  Friday Cut corn took binder back

4  Saturday  Shocked corn PD at Ponsford

5  Sunday  To Alberts took Tillie and kids

6  Monday  Shocked corn and tied some shocks

7  Tuesday  Tied shocks and cut sweet corn by hand

8  Wednesday  Went to Shoberts sale got seperator

9  Thursday  Cut corn by hand tied shocks got thronyh?

10  Friday  Made seperator face picked up corn for pigs

11  Saturday  Worked on hen house Rocky Hazel Jim here

12  Sunday  Home in AM to church and Sandersons PM

13  Monday  Worked on hen house all day Thresa helped

14  Tuesday  Helped wash picked up corn AM worked on hen house PM

15  Wednesday  Himnonons sale worked some on the coop

16  Thursday  Worked on hen coop

17  Friday  Worked on chicken coop AM picked up corn in PM

18  Saturday To PR to fair PD at Ponsford in eve

19  Sunday  Rainy up to sawmill

20  Monday  Rolled logs at mill

21  Tuesday  Rolled logs at sawmill

22  Wednesday  Started sawing my logs  rainy

23  Thursday  Sawed some rainy went to Sorensons sale

24  Friday Worked on hen house hauled lumber  PD in Osage in PM

25  Saturday  Hauled lumber rained in PM

26  Sunday  Home Dads and Cliff here in eve

27  Monday  Finished sawing my logs

28  Tuesday  Opened up my cellar fixed some bins picked up some corn to feed

29  Wednesday  Helped Gruns dig some spuds

30  Thursday  Helped Gruns dig spuds Thresa went along

Farm Diary: August 1920

August

1  Sunday Home Aunt Amelia folks and Kate Fitzsimmons and friend here

2  Monday Sprayed spuds Thresa went blueberrying with folks

3  Tuesday  Sprayed spuds helped engine across bridge went to Albert’s to look at colt

4  Wednesday  To PR with load of lumber

5  Thursday  Done odd jobs to ???? piled lumber Buss here to sell silo rained a little

6  Friday  Took cream cut wheat and some oats

7  Saturday  Cut oats PD at Osage in eve

8  Sunday  Home Dads and Bob here

9  Monday  Cut hay on fence row sprayed some spuds got in hay Fred Grosman and Ruth Peterson here for supper

10  Tuesday  Helped wash loaded and piled lumber implement man is here

11  Wednesday  ??? here after spreader to PR after lumber got only part of it

12  Thursday  To Knoops cleared for new hen house

13  Friday  Cleared and scraped  in front of hen house plowed for a place to stack grain  cut oats

14  Saturday  Shocked and stacked grain

15  Sunday  Home all day gave Morris a lesson

16  Monday Stacked grain

17  Tuesday  Helped wash piled and cleared brush

18  Wednesday  Put out fires around brush piles stacked grain Mr. Sanderson helped me

19  Thursday  Finished stacking rainy made fence got stung by a yellow jacket

20  Friday  Mr. Dow here loafed, face swelled up

21  Saturday  Worked at fence Fred Emma and Dads here

22  Sunday Gave Morris lesson to S.G. in PM

23  Monday Made fence all day Robinson got wagon box

24  Tuesday Helped wash butchered veal went to PR brought back lumber

25  Wednesday  Unloaded lumber sharpened posts drove them went fishing in eve Fred went along

26  Thursday  Made fence in AM made a morter box and saw horses

27  Friday  Made forms for hen house foundation picked up rocks and put them in forms

28  Saturday   Put cement in forms Uncle Isic and family and Tillie here PD at Osage

29  Sunday  To PR Tillie there

30  Monday Picked seed corn strung it up cuts some corn got Gruns binder in eve

31  Tuesday Cut corn all day

Farm Diary: July 1920

July

1  Thursday  Plowed corn

2  Friday  Got over corn second time ??

3  Saturday  Got shovels sharpened plowed spuds in PM played at Osage in eve

4  Sunday  To Ponsford

5  Monday  To Rhodes celebration rained cut some clover

6  Tuesday  Cut clover and cultivated spuds PD at Ponsford

7  Wednesday  Sprayed spuds and plowed them

8  Thursday  Plowed and sprayed spuds raked hay  Mr. Rhodes helped

9  Friday  Worked on hay shed and hauled in some hay

10  Saturday Plowed and sprayed spuds hauled in hay PM

11  Sunday  Emma and Rubert and Dad’s and Amelia here

12  Monday  Plowed corn

13  Tuesday  Rained hailed some helped wash worked on shed

14  Wednesday  Fixed fence and plowed corn

15 Thursday  Plowed corn

16  Friday  Finished haying by corn plowed spuds

17  Saturday  Plowed spuds rained worked on hay shed P.D. at Lon Burlingames

18  Sunday  To PR Minnie and kids came home with us

19  Monday  Took old Spot and hog to PR

20  Tuesday  Plowed spuds took Minnie to Alberts in eve

21  Wednesday   Finished spud third time  cut timothy sprayed spuds Mr. Rhodes helped

22 Thursday  Plowed spuds raked hay sprayed spuds Rhodes helped

23  Friday  Rained took horses to Albert pasture sprayed spuds and turned hay in PM

24  Saturday  Plowed spuds and raked hay Wess Sloan sprayed spuds I worked on hay shed and got ready to put in hay we hauled in four loads of hay in PM

25  Sunday  To Harry Razees to Park in PM

26  Monday  Plowed and sprayed some spuds hauled in five loads of hay Rhodes helped

27  Tuesday  Finished laying in dry spuds worked on hay shed in PM Rhodes helped in PM

28  Wednesday  Worked on hay shed Rhodes helped

29  Thursday  Worked on hay shed Rhodes helped in AM  I worked all day on shed

30  Friday  Finished shed got in some hay

31  Saturday Made fence To Osage in eve P.D. Ponsford

Farm Diary: June 1920

June

1  Tuesday  To Osage Rainy cleaned up rubbish

2  Wednesday Put out crow poison helped wash pulled trees over to Dows To Show at Osage

3  Thursday  Replanted corn all day

4  Friday  Took cream Rained Bob and Francis here got up horses rained didn’t work P.D.  at Osage

5  Saturday  Plowed disced and harrowed Buckwheat patch fixed bridge replanted corn

6  Sunday   Gave Maurice lesson to Greens

7  Monday To PR took veals

8  Tuesday Harrowed spuds

9  Wednesday  Replanted corn finished.  Marvin took measles

10  Thursday  Rained all day laid around

11  Friday Put out crow poison took cream seperator  agent here started cultivating

12  Saturday  Cultivated early spuds and corn changed salt box weaned pigs fixed bridge I hoed in garden To Osage in eve

13  Sunday  Home Thresa went to church

14  Monday Took cream weeded strawberry patch

15  Tuesday Rainy helped wash cultivated in PM

16  Wednesday Cultivated all day

17  Thursday Cultivated all day

18  Friday   Cultivated, started hay shed

19  Saturday Worked on hay shed

20  Sunday  To Knips Dads here

21  Monday Worked on hay shed  took cream

22 Tuesday  Worked on hay shed

23  Wednesday Went to PR to Show

24  Thursday  Started plowing big patch spuds

25  Friday  Plowed spuds

26  Saturday Plowed spuds in AM  Rained in PM

27  Sunday  Marck? and Mirtil ? here Rained

28  Monday  Took cream fixed fence worked on shed

29  Tuesday  Fixed mower and fence plowed spuds

30 Wednesday  Plowed spuds and corn

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