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

Farm Diary: October 1924

October
1  Wednesday  Dug spuds Dads and Lydia helped
2  Thursday Dug spuds Dads and Lydia helped
3  Friday Dug spuds ourselves
4  Saturday Finished spuds Lydia helped rained
5  Sunday Cleaned out barns to church in eve
6  Monday Done odd jobs to PR in PM to fix loan papers
7  Tuesday Bought trailer worked on it all day
8  Wednesday Dad bought my pigs and I took them to his farm in trailer Rained in PM we husked some corn rained hard in PM
9  Thursday Husked corn AM to PR in PM to get that we wanted on our trip
10  Friday Started to Iowa drove all day dinner at Sauk Center camped at Redwood Falls
11 Saturday Drove all day dinner near Spence Ia to Logan about 7:30 Mother down to Vidas
12 Sunday  Home to Mothers both wills there
13 Monday Mother came home about noon
14 Tuesday To Council Bluffs stayed all night at Grovers
15 Wednesday Rainy To George Rogers for dinner out to Aunt Annies for supper stayed all night at Geos Harold and family came in eve
16 Thursday  To Grovers after Mother then to Chester Graybills for dinner to Chester’s folks for supper there saw Vida Home to Mothers about 11 o’clock
17 Friday Up to Bill Podendorff To Cal Woldermire  Cal came to Bill in eve
18 Saturday To Mothers for dinner stayed around Logan in PM To Chas Stuves overnight
19 Sunday Had picnic in Tourist Park  home with Frank Rogers
20 Monday  Worked on car To Ervins in eve saw Father Uncle Franks there home to Mothers about 12 o’clock
21 Tuesday To Uncle Earls for dinner Uncle Chas in PM out to Will Wettendorf in eve
22 Wednesday Chas Norris to see us at Mothers in eve Uncle Earls Chas Stuve both Wills and Bernard there in eve played cards
23 Thursday To Mothers all day Cora came in
24 Friday Started for Battle Creek Ia to Lauras about 10 o’clock helped her move
25 Saturday Started for Minn dinner near Spirit Lake supper meal Redwood Falls camped at Spicer
26 Sunday Breakfast near Browerville to PR about one thirty dinner at Grandmas home in PM
27 Monday  Plowed in AM to PR in PM
28 Tuesday Plowed Ronie fresh Thresa helped Mrs Dow cook for thrashers I raked vines and burned them
29 Wednesday  Helped S.G. thrash Uncle Jeff went along plowed in PM
30 Thursday Plowed Uncle Jeff thrashed
31 Friday Plowed Uncle Jeff went to Dows

Farm Diary: September 1924

September
1  Monday Shipped old sows Thresa went to PR in car
2  Tuesday Met school marm haulded in alfalfa clipings cut sweet corn fauder
3  Wednesday Cut sweet corn fauder snapped off the ears
4  Thursday Looked after corn binder got Robinsons in PM worked on it Lizzie here
5  Friday To Witters after load of oats cut corn in PM Dads and Eva here in eve
6  Saturday Worked on corn binder in AM  To PR in PM took Eva Rained
7  Sunday Home fished in AM went to church at Osage
8  Monday Cut corn
9  Tuesday  Cut corn
10 Wednesday Picked seed corn in AM shocked some PM
11 Thursday Shocked in AM cut some in PM wet
12 Friday Shocked in morn to town meeting shocked in eve rainy
13 Saturday Shocked corn in AM to PR Rain in PM Mayer went along
14 Sunday To Jim and Hazel Walls
15 Monday Shocked in AM cut corn in PM
16 Tuesday Shocked corn Road drag man here in PM
17 Wednesday Took corn binder home cut some sweet corn fauder in PM
18 Thursday Moved corn crib
19 Friday Picked up corn
20 Saturday Dug early spuds picked up corn in PM Horace brought home spreader
21 Sunday Home worked on car rained all day
22 Monday Cut clover riged plow
23 Tuesday Plowed AM Raked clover seed in PM Lizzie here
24 Wednesday Plowed in AM Picked up corn in PM
25 Thursday To see Levines plowed rest of day
26 Friday Took chickens to PR cleaned cellar rainy
27 Saturday Plowed
28 Sunday Dads here got digger out made sauerkraut
29 Monday Started digging spuds
30 Tuesday Dug spuds in AM  Helped Becks thrash in PM

Farm Diary: August 1924

August
1  Friday Finished laying by spuds in AM got Shoferss garden plow in PM plowed beans
2  Saturday Layed by garden in AM to PR in PM
3  Sunday Uncle Johns took Jimmie to Dr nail in foot
4  Monday Sprayed spuds
5  Tuesday To Osage in AM Laviness started work on school house I grubed stumps
6  Wednesday Grubed took chickens in PM
7  Thursday Grubed to dance at Osage in eve
8  Friday  Grubed to Osage at noon fixed tire grubed
9  Saturday Grubed AM to Menahga in PM got leather and twine
10 Sunday To Emmas and Ruberts Dads went along
11 Monday Sprayed spuds in AM Grubed in PM
12 Tuesday Grubed and burned
13 Wednesday Frost injured crops grubed took first roasting ears to town in eve
14 Thursday Rained some cut some brush along road side Beck here sold two pigs to Dows to see about getting cutting done burned
15 Friday G Dow here to cut oats I took sweet corn to PR shocked in PM
16 Saturday Shocked in AM took sweet corn
17 Sunday Frost home Dads here Hard Frost
18 Monday Took in sweet corn two trips
19 Tuesday Took in sweet corn grubed and burned stumps
20 Wednesday Took sweet corn Rainy grubed and burned stumps
21 Thursday Cleared piled brush started breaking in PM picked sweet corn
22 Friday Took in sweet corn sent some on stage plowed in PM
23 Saturday Thresa took in sweet corn I plowed finished breaking mowed weeds along road
24 Sunday Home Vern took Skinnie and Thresa and kids to Pillsbury ND I chored done odd jobs To mayers (Skinnie is Frances Stuve)
25 Monday Stacked oats May Sexton cooked Geo Mayer helped me
26 Tuesday Stacked Thresa and kids came home in eve
27 Wednesday Worked at fence cleaned school house fenced  dover seed to Osage in eve
28 Thursday Fixed fence around pasture AM  PM helped Robinson thrash
29 Friday Helped Robinson thrash rained in PM
30 Saturday Cut alfalfa finished thrashing for R
31 Sunday Home to Osage played Horseshoe

Farm Diary : July 1924

July
1  Tuesday Plowed potatoes
2  Wednesday Plowed spuds raked hay and hauled it in Played in Ponsford in eve
3  Thursday Plowed corn in AM to fair in PM  Magins Johns on spoke
4  Friday Plowed corn in morn Took kids to PR Played at Twinletts Len Lord and Florence Jester played also
5  Saturday Plowerd corn in AM  Dads in auto accident played in PM at Ponsford
6  Sunday Home fixed some fence worked on car to Ponsford in eve
7  Monday Plowed corn all day
8  Tuesday Plowed corn in AM rained  set out cucumbers  Buddy and Lois here Dads here
9 Wednesday  Plowed corn
10 Thursday Plowed corn
11 Friday Cultivated PD at Ponsford in eve
12 Saturday Cultivated in AM To PR in PM Buddy and Lois went home
13 Sunday To Aunt Amelias
14 Monday Fixed mower cut hay in PM
15 Tuesday Cut hay
16 Wednesday Cut hay finished
17 Thursday Raked and bunched in PM Mear came in PM hauled in two loads and shocked some rained in night
18 Friday Rainy done odd jobs
19 Saturday Plowed corn in PM to school meeting and social in eve
20 Sunday Took Ronald to Dr in PM had hives raked hay in PM rained at night
21 Monday
22 Tuesday Turned hay and plowed corn
23 Wednesday Turned hay hauled in a load
24 Thursday  Mear came hauled in hay
25 Friday Hauled in hay finished
26 Saturday Plowed corn
27 Sunday To Virgil Ryans
28 Monday Sprayed spuds hauled corn
29 Tuesday rainy sprayed spuds hauled rocks for road
30 Wednesday Hauled rock in AM cleaned up in PM
31 Thursday Cultivated all day

Farm Diary: June 1924

June
1  Sunday Home all day Becks here in AM
2  Monday Planted spuds J. Minkie after spuds harrowed some
3  Tuesday Planted popcorn and beans harrowed corn assesor here for supper
4  Wednesday Started grubing in front of Sextons went fishing 12 Bullheads
5  Thursday Grubed piled and burned
6  Friday Grubed piled and burned
7  Saturday Grubed piled and burned fish in eve1 B head
8  Sunday Home loaded a load of spuds rainy
9  Monday Took spuds to PR .75 per wt
10 Tuesday Made fence around breaking
11 Wednesday Finished fence cleared some grubed some Carron Peterson here to sell me car.  Plowed some
12  Thursday  Plowed all day bought car (What kind I wonder?)
13 Friday Plowed Big party on Thresa  disced harrowed Maleta here (Tracie would have been 29 years old)
14  Saturday Harrowed planted spuds and cucumbers rainy
15 Sunday Planted spuds in morn To Sunday school picnic at Park Rapids planted some beans in eve
16 Monday Harrowed spuds to Primary election Judge
17 Tuesday Cleaned barn in AM viewed roads in PM
18 Wednesday Cultivated sweet corn and spuds and garden a hard rain in eve
19 Thursday Made car shed
20 Friday Put in alfalfa
21 Saturday Took Thresa and kids to PR to go with Lydia to Bemidji went after them in eve Plowed corn in PM Rained in eve
22 Sunday Home rainy caught some minnows rainy
23 Monday Operated on pigs went to board meeting
24 Tuesday Plowed corn harrowed spuds in AM
25 Wednesday Plowed corn all day
26 Thursday Plowed  corn put in new cultivator tongue
27  Friday Rainy fixed mowed cut sweet clover plowed corn in PM
28 Saturday Rainy cleaned barn practiced new pieces To PR in PM
29 Sunday Went to cotages took Lizzie along Kids went to Sunday school in eve
30 Monday Cut medium clover plowed corn and gardens

Farm Diary: May 1924

May
1  Thursday Harrowed for oats started oats sowing
2  Friday Sowed oats
3  Saturday Finished oats went to PR and got oats ground
4  Sunday Chored Thresa went to Emmas
5  Monday Hauled some manure attended town meeting
6  Tuesday  Snow about 2 inches shelled some corn rainy
7  Wednesday Hauled manure about 5 inches of snow took out fence and rolled up wire in PM
8  Thursday  Nocked out stumps in front of chicken house and sawed post in two in PM rainy
9  Friday Hauled hay in barn from hay shed
10  Saturday Sowed oats in where clover was poor catch AM Thresa went to PR hauled some manure and plowed in PM
11 Sunday Home all day fixed some fence Thresa and kids went along to church in eve
12 Monday Disced and harrowed and mark garden worked on garden fence cut some slabs at sawmill
13 Tuesday Rainy put up picket fence loaded some manure cleaned up around wood pile and hauled it down to dam
14 Wednesday Hauled stumps off ground in front of chicken house and plowed the ground disced and harrowed it grader man here
15 Thursday Planted early spuds and sweet corn hauled some manure in PM
16 Friday  Hauled manure planted watter mellons at noon
17 Saturday Hauled manure Dads here in eve
18 Sunday Home all day Little and neighbor here cold
19 Monday Ice 1/4 in thick hauled manure and plowed  Lydia and Ma here burned ???box
20 Tuesday Finished plowing for corn disced in PM cold
21 Wednesday Disced and started harrowing cold
22 Thursday Harrowed all day cold freezing every night
23 Friday Snow one in morn hauled in lumber in of potatoe ground plowed some by house for beans loaded some manure finished dragging in PM
24 Saturday To PR took oats for grinding snowed some Ronald went along
25 Sunday Home warmed up some still cold
26 Monday Hauled manure plowed patches south of garden disced and harrowed them Mr Livingston here after spuds started planting corn in PM
27 Tuesday Planted corn all day Insurance agent here in eve
28 Wednesday Finished planting corn grubed some by road
29 Thursday Grubed went to school picnic grubed some more
30 Friday Grubed in AM plowed in PM Marshalls brought back spud planter
31 Saturday Plowed disced harrowed started planting spuds

Farm Diary: April 1924

April
1  Tuesday Split wood finished kitchen Loran Poole here to show at Osage in eve played after for dance
2  Wednesday Hauled some hay out of hay shed and put it in barn piled hay in hay shed so rain wouldn’t drift in
3  Thursday Unloaded some fauder and hay to Creamery meeting at Osage
4  Friday Hauled fauder out of old barn and put it in new barn
5  Saturday To saw mill got my logs sawed and helped Sexton some
6  Sunday Ruperts Dads here Rubert brought bull
7  Monday To Saw Mill helped Sexton
8  Tuesday Went to PR with a load of spuds
9  Wednesday Up to Osage Town Board meeting
10 Thursday Split and corded wood
11 Friday Split wood snowed Insurance man here
12 Saturday Snowed all day to Wolf Lake in eve
13 Sunday Went to Thompsons to get bull, to church in eve
14 Monday Fixed drill tongue
15 Tuesday Fixed drill and spreader, Dads here hauled some manure
16 Wednesday Cleaned oats all day
17 Thursday Cleaned grainery, hauled manure
18 Friday Split wood corded wood fixed disc
19 Saturday Chirchill brought grader out sacked up potatoes + Mayer + Sexton helped
20 Sunday Dads and Annas here in morn to Thompsons + Osage in PM
21 Monday Helped to load two loads of spuds on truck and crated some more to PR in PM
22 Tuesday Chored to RR to settle deal with spud buyers
23 Wednesday Sorted spuds and sacked and loaded hem Mr Mear helped
24 Thursday Loaded last load of spuds put little ones in barn hauled some manure started discing
25 Friday Disced to Osage at noon Took some cream
26 Saturday Started to disc rained treated oats cleaned grass seed choted
27 Sunday Home Mrs Green and Horris here fished some to churchin eve rainy
28 Monday Rainy sacked oats in AM to Osage to get them ground in PM but engine did not work so did not get them ground Thresa went to visit Ethel Robinson
29 Tuesday Disced all day
30 Wednesday Drag oats ground with road drag

Farm Diary: March 1924

March
1  Saturday To Town meeting Ronalds birthday Sold Arthur hog
2  Sunday Home Dads came out had Ice Cream
3  Monday Cut ties
4  Tuesday Cut ties in AM Arthur here sold them butchered calf in PM
5  Wednesday Cut up meat and chored in AM we went to PR in car in PM snowed in eve
6  Thursday Cut up meat to can hauled in wood
7  Friday Hauled wood to Osage in AM tried to get some feed ground but failed Marvin came down with Chicken Pox
8  Saturday Cut dry wood and hauled it to Osage in eve
9  Sunday Home all day
10 Monday Cut dry wood
11 Tuesday Chored in morn served as election judge
12 Wednesday Cut and hauled in wood
13 Thursday Cut up hog in AM made shelves in wood shed and cut some dry wood in PM
14 Friday Cut and hauled dry wood
15 Saturday Cut dry wood in AM to PR in PM had operation on my eye
16 Sunday Home all day to church in eve
17 Monday Cut and hauled wood
18 Tuesday Cut wood hauled some to Osage
19 Wednesday Cut and hauled wood helped wash
20 Thursday Cut and hauled dry wood Evert Crosby here for dinner
21 Friday To Qualification Meeting all day Cremer fresh
22 Saturday Took hog to Osage hauled in saw logs on wagon in PM
23 Sunday Home Dads here for dinner
24 Monday Helped Greens saw wood
25 Tuesday To Wedemires sale
26 Wednesday Helped wash Jimmie and Ronald has chicken pox cut post
27 Thursday Hauled up post done some odd jobs Stearns came and ground some feed
28 Friday Ground some feed sawed wood Tracie and Marvin to Osage to play in eve.
29 Saturday Cleaned hen house split and corded wood in shed
30 Sunday Chored home all day Frances Suzitijtkys here a while Marvin to crafts Sivet fresh
31 Monday Split wood and corded in kitchen

Farm Diary: February 1924

February
1  Friday Hauled wood in AM cut some tamaracks in PM
2  Saturday Cut tamarack ties all day thawed
3  Sunday Chored Dads here Fred Zellar here in eve to church
4  Monday Cut ties
5  Tuesday Cut ties
6  Wednesday Hauled wood and ties to house
7  Thursday Helped Sexton saw wood   Good Luck the 7th
8  Friday Took load of bolts to saw mill and helped all day at saw mill
9  Saturday Worked all day at saw mill
10 Sunday To PR Lydia came out after us
11 Monday Hauled lumber and ties from mill
12 Tuesday Took bull home to Moyers in PM  little spot fresh
13 Wednesday Took load of wood to Curt Pools and visited school Thresa went to Osage also
14 Thursday Hauled logs to saw mill
15 Friday Cut some dry wood chored Sartain here to see ties and bought them
16 Saturday Cut ties to Osage in eve
17 Sunday Home Fred Zellar came in eve to church in eve
18 Monday Made ties
19 Tuesday Made ties
20 WEdnesday Made ties in AM Loaded load of wood chored and ground feed
21 Thursday To PR with wood and cream and feed
22 Friday Chored made some ties PD at Osage snow fresh
23 Saturday Made ties
24 Sunday To Greens and then to Glen Dows
25 Monday Made ties
26 Tuesday Made ties
27 Wednesday Got my lumber sawed and hauled it and piled it
28 Thursday Cut ties
29 Friday Hauled ties

Farm Diary: January 1924

January
1  Tuesday New Years Day started cutting Tammerack ties up to saw mill in eve cleared playing for dances 286.65 took in 322.90 cows from cream 388.00
2  Wednesday To PR with a load of 24 ties for Bun Lemons
3  Thursday Chored got in load of stove wood to Osage put up school wood notices very cold
4  Friday Chored to Ponsford to telephone meeting Cold
5  Saturday 42 below cut ties
6  Sunday Home Dads here in PM got stuck up by corner
7  Monday Cut ties in AM Pansy fresh to Mowers after bull PM
8  Tuesday Cut ties in AM Chored and cut roads in PM
9  Wednesday Hauled ties to mill cut some road brought load of ties back
10 Thursday To PR with ties
11 Friday Butchered 2 hogs PD at Osage  in eve
12 Saturday Fred Z and Lydia here in morning I chored Thresa went to Gilchrists party in PM I cut some ties
13 Sunday Home Horace and Mrs Green here Thresa Marvin and Ronald went to church in eve Jimmie and I to home
14 Monday Cut and hauled some ties to mill
15 Tuesday Cut some ties in AM to telephone meeting in PM snowed
16 Wednesday  Cut ties
17 Thursday Cut and hauled some ties cold
18 Friday Cut ties AM Hauled in load of wood
19 Saturday To PR with wood frosty cold and windy
20 Sunday Home May here in PM
21 Monday Cut ties chored
22 Tuesday Helped Robinsons saw wood
23 Wednesday Took Burt Gilpin a load of wood
24 Thursday Skided the bolts and cut some
25 Friday Hauled A E Sartin some wood
26 Saturday Hauled ???? to sawmill
27 Sunday Home kids from Osage here in eve
28 Monday  Got feed ground at Smiths took rooster in exchange thawed
29 Tuesday Cut some tammarack bolts and hauled them to mill in PM Got some ties sawed thawed
30 Wednesday Piled and hauled ties Becks here after spuds 103 lbs Thawed
31 Thursday Filed saw sharpened ax cut down Norway in front of barn Dads came out in car thawed hauled wood in PM