Farm Diary : December 1927

December 1 Thursday hauled fauder
December 2 Friday hauled some fauder took a load of wood to Slone got some feed ground
December 3 Saturday hauled fauder to Osage in eve after Gros. stormy
December 4 Sunday Dads here
December 5 Monday took kids to school hauled some fauder
December 6 Tuesday took chickens to PR
December 7 Wednesday hauled fauder took kids to school Frances here in eve roads blocked
December 8 Thursday took kids hauled fauder Frances here roads blocked
December 9 Friday took kids hauled fauder they plowed roads so Frances now home
December 10 Saturday Sexton used sleighs in AM we put wood in kitchen in PM took oats to get ground but had to leave them
December 11 Sunday home to church in eve
December 12 Monday took Perkins wood and chickens to Sartains
December 13 Tuesday  to PR sorting spuds that I had stored sold them for .42  per bu
December 14 Wednesday butchered calf
December 15 Thursday took kids very cold. hauled a load of wood to Andersons Chiltons and Leviness
December 16 Friday Cold roads blocked hauled wood to Lester Enfield and Leviness took up some oats to grind
December 17 Saturday chored very bad day with baby funeral I hauled a load of slabs in PM to Osage in eve
December 18 Sunday home chored to Osage to practice kids for Xmas
December 19 Monday took wood to Osage butchered a pig loaded a load of wood in eve
December 20 Tuesday to PR with wood done Xmas shopping  got longe
December 21 Wednesday chored hauled in some slabs
December 22 Thursday went with Kline and Brewer after Xmas tree took wood to Slone in PM kids and Thresa practiced at hall we filled sacks
December 23 Friday took oats to grind to program in eve went with Sextons
December 24 Saturday to PR with car
December 25 Sunday Christmas Day home
December 26 Monday hauled slabs
December 27 Tuesday chored in AM hauled in PM
December 28 Wednesday hauled two loads of wood to Osage  Thresa and kids went last load big snow
December 29 Thursday chored and laid around had headache
December 30 Friday started cutting dry wood and hauled in some
December 31 Saturday cut and hauled dry wood

Farm Diary: November 1927

November 1 Tuesday Plowed, Tracie to Ladies Aid
November 2 Wednesday got oats from Schubert  plowed
November 3 Thursday plowed, cold got horse from Jim R
November 4 Friday plowed cold
November 5 Saturday made Sauer Kraut to town in afternoon, cold
November 6 Sunday home all day, church in eve
November 7 Monday snowed took 2 veal to PR
November 8 Tuesday about 4 in snow done odd jobs for Tracie
November 9 Wednesday town meeting Thresa washed
November 10 Thursday chored husked some corn went to view road work down by Crafts. took pump up and worked on it to Osage in eve to get leathers B. Queen Thresa visited school
November 11 Friday Finished pump chored husked corn
November 12 Saturday husked corn froze up Ford worked on it to PR in PM cold
November 13 Sunday  home Finished corn chored Jimmie caught a weasel I skinned it to church in eve
November 14 Monday worked in cellar moving and crating Ohios changed spuds from stall in barn to cellar
November 15 Tuesday Pump went wrong had to take it up put spuds in cellar in PM
November 16 Wednesday Put some spuds in cellar Thresa washed went to Farm Bureau meeting tried to ingage some spuds but failed
November 17 Thursday finished putting spuds in cellar began sacking spuds in my sacks
November 18 Friday sacked spuds all day
November 19 Saturday hauled a load to PR to coopers to store them Orville Sartain haualed them Thresa and kids took our car and went also
November 20 Sunday home all day Jimmie was sick was coming down with measles
November 21 Monday took rest of spuds to PR got some feed ground Orville brought me home shiped six pigs
November 22 Tuesday Put sleigh together butchered two pigs took a load of wood to school house
November 23 Wednesday Took a load of wood to Slones dipped goats in PM
November 24 Thursday Thanksgiving Day Thresa and Marvin went to Freds for Thanks dinner Emma and Annas there  I stayed home with Jimmie and Ronald with measles I played to Ponsford Dance in eve
November 25 Friday took a load of wood to Mrs Perkins in Osage hauled fauder
November 26 Saturday hauled fauder all day Marvin helped herd about Frank Klarer getting killed in eve
November 27 Sunday home all day
November 28 Monday took oats to Osage to get ground Miles Smith came after wood hauled in a load of wood
November 29 Tuesday chored fixed storm door started to Klarers funeral in PM got stuck in snow did not get there
November 30 Wednesday hauled fauder

Farm Diary:October 1927

October 1 Saturday finished spuds 600 bu
October 2 Sunday all took bath, took horse back,went over home Ruberts there, Frances still sick
October 3 Monday worked on house rained some
October 4 Tuesday finished digging spuds in garden
October 5 Wednesday  hauled manure
October 6 Thursday hauled manure
October 7 Friday raked clover hauled in 1 load rained some
October 8 Saturday hauled in last load of clover, snowed went up to Emma's stayed overnight Sexton done chores
October 9 Sunday up to Emmas cold came home
October 10 Monday hauled manure
October 11 Tuesday hauled manure
October 12 Wednesday hauled manure
October 13 Thursday hauled manure
October 14 Friday cleaned hen house went to Levi Stephens sale down to see about thrashing machine, Laura, Erman + Carl here for a while
October 15 Saturday finished manure, thrashed beans Tracie went to town, Marvin plowed
October 16 Sunday got in a calf, shucked corn, over home for dinner Laura, Erman + Carl there
October 17 Monday plowed, sold corn
October 18 Tuesday plowed, Erman, Laura + Carl here for dinner, Tracie and Laura went to Ladies Aid. Klair here after cow
October 19 Wednesday  sold old Snow plowed
October 20 Thursday plowed
October 21 Friday looked for thrashers they came after dinner, Oats 360, Wheat 100, clover seed 4 bu
October 22 Saturday helped Sexton thrash helped Sanderson also, Tracie to Bemidji, Jerry sick in hospital, went to PR in afternoon
October 23 Sunday done up work, Tracie to Bemidji, Sanderson here, Tracie home in eve
October 24 Monday Little Jerry died, Tracie went in after Uncle John +Aunt Sophia Basch, I took them back in eve
October 25 Tuesday went up to see Averson went to Jerry's funeral in afternoon
October 26 Wednesday got things in out of garden
October 27 Thursday  hauled in fodder
October 28 Friday finished fodder, burned brush piles,school program in eve. Frances + Ruby teachers
October 29 Saturday finished burning brush, riged up gang plow got in wood, rained
October 30 Sunday rained, Dads here, plowed
October 31 Monday plowed

Farm Diary:September 1927

September 1 Thursday Bills went to Aunt Bunts Bills took kids to fair I worked on house
September 2 Friday worked on corn binder
September 3 Saturday started cutting corn
September 4 Sunday Aunt Amelias cottage Bryans Uncle John Jim Walls and Dads and Virgils cousin there
September 5 Monday helped Robinson
September 6 Tuesday cut corn Bill washed his car in river got stuck I dug some spuds to send to Mother
September 7 Wednesday Just visited Bills got ready to start home
September 8 Thursday Bills started home I cut corn
September 9 Friday cut corn
September 10 Saturday cut and shocked corn
September 11 Sunday Finished stacking fauder got word that Lydia was sick and in hospital in Willmar
September 12 Monday Thresa went to PR I and Leviness worked on garage till noon he went home to clean his chicken house
September 13 Tuesday To PR after freight Leviness came but went back with me and stayed all day
September 14 Wednesday Worked on garage
September 15 Thursday Received word Lydia passed away at Wilmar went to PR Leviness went back home with us I cut corn in PM
September 16 Friday cut corn went to meet train in eve Lydias body came, also Chas +Nettie Lewis and Eva here all night
September 17 Saturday finished corn in morn went to Lydias funeral in afternoon brot Annas + Emmas kids home that eve
September 18 Sunday Minnies stoped a while on the way home, Dads + Franks, Annas, Emmas, Freda, Chas +Laura here for dinner, Chas over night
September 19 Monday cut sweet corn in morn went to Ponsford Charlie and Nettie in afternoon Tracie took them to  .....missing corner of page in eve Laura came out
September 20 Tuesday helped Sextons thrash filled in dirt around foundation went to Freds that eve for supper but didn't have any
September 21 Wednesday picked up a little corn Frank and Mattie came out went to the lake fishing in afternoon also eve
September 22 Thursday Franks went back to Dads, Tracie went along and I picked up corn, Laura came out
September 23 Friday put windrower together Laura + Tracie went to town Frances sick I started to cut clover, Frank out in eve went fishing
September 24 Saturday Frank here picked up corn finished
September 25 Sunday tool Leviness a load of wood to Claytons after a horse, over home in afternoon
September 26 Monday started to dig potatoes Marvin helped
September 27 Tuesday dug spuds
September 28 Wednesday rained all day worked on cement
September 29 Thursday dug spuds
September 30 Friday dug spuds

Note: Tracie writes in red

Farm Diary: August 1927

August 1 Monday put in some forms and cement Minnie and Ila and Eva here in eve
August 2 Tuesday
August 3 Wednesday put in forms and cement
August 4 Thursday put in forms and cement
August 5 Friday filed cellar in barn in AM started cutting wheat in PM Ben Clayson did it
August 6 Saturday cut wheat and oats
August 7 Sunday Finished oats
August 8 Monday hauled rock in morn and put in some forms cattle buyer here Cornwalls here in eve
August 9 Tuesday Leviness here to help on cement
August 10 - August 16
August 17 Wednesday Claud Ceacel here in eve from Iowa
August 18 Thursday Bill Wittendorf and Francis Poden (dorf) came went Fishing in PM Ceacils
August 19 Friday stacked grain run two wagons Francis and Bill helped
August 20 Saturday Stacked  Cora and Thresa went to PR with sweet corn
August 21 Sunday Finished stacking to Aunt Bunts for dinner
August 22 Monday worked on basement of house all week 23 24 25 26 27
August 28 Sunday went to Ponsford and state park
August 29 Monday butchered hog Bill helped
August 30  Tuesday butchered another hog
August 31 Wednesday took hog and went to fair Cora and Bill and Francis went along

Farm Diary: July 1927

July 1 Friday  plowed corn
July 2 Saturday plowed corn
July 3 Sunday Home Tillie and Harlie came in eve
July 4 Monday celebrated at Ponsford Tillie and Harlie went along
July 5 Tuesday plowed spuds
July 6 Wednesday Rainy washed Fished in eve
July 7 Thursday started mower I sprayed spuds Marvin mowed
July 8 Friday Mowed started raking with one horse I shocked some in eve
July 9 Saturday put hay in the hock
July 10 Sunday went to PR Tillie went to Dads
July 11 Monday hauled in hay
July 12 Tuesday hauled in hay rained in PM
July 13 Wednesday buged spuds in AM plowed some sweet corn in PM
July 14 Thursday plowed sweet corn and garden got in a load of hay then it rained
July 15 Friday buged spuds AM worked with hay and drug roads in PM
July 16 Saturday Rained in PM to PR in PM
July 17 Sunday home Chet and Frances here to church in eve
July 18 Monday Fixed hay fence changed some drug road
July 19 Tuesday Finished haying to school meeting in the eve Mrs Burt Gilpen election clerk
July 20 Wednesday started to cultivate corn  but rained
July 21 Thursday sprayed spuds in AM cultivated corn in PM Thresa sprayed spuds
July 22 Friday  cultivated corn
July 23 Saturday Finished corn
July 24 Sunday went to PR after Dad and Ma  Kate Fitzsimmons and her mother Mary Ryan and another lady here
July 25 Monday plowed spuds
July 26 Tuesday started scraping out hole for new house
July 27 Wednesday scraped
July 28 Thursday Took chickens to PR in AM scraped in PM
July 29 Friday sprayed spuds dug on basement
July 30 Saturday hauled rock and went to PR in eve got pump
July 31 Sunday Picked berries sprinkled to Bog Lake fishing in PM

Farm Diary: June 1927

June 1 Wednesday disced harrowed and planted braking in garden
June 2 Thursday planted beans Thresa went to PR her mother sick I harrowed some corn
June 3 Friday harrowed in morn to Lemons grove to school picnic
June 4 Saturday finished harrowing made fence by Sextons
June 5 Sunday to Dads Marvin and Ronald went to ball game at Osage
June 6 Monday made goat fence
June 7 Tuesday made goat fence Marvin harrowed spuds
June 8 Wednesday attended Town meeting Thresa went to party at Jim McCarins
June 9 Thursday Fixed some fence
June 10 Friday fenced on north end of Stephens eighty put corn in
June 11 Saturday worked on fence
June 12 Sunday Finished fence in morn Dads Tillie Clark and Harlie Freds Ruberts here
June 13 Monday hoed and replanted sweet corn in AM started to move hay shed
June 14 Tuesday got Sextons stump puller and started moving hay shed
June 15 Wednesday Finished shed
June 16 Thursday replanted corn
June 17 Friday replanted corn in AM to Ruth Becks sale and started cultivating sweet corn
June 18 Saturday Finished corn and garden in AM put up garden fence and skided poles and wood from where old hay shed stood Miss Fogelburg came
June 19 Sunday to PR to Lutheran Sunday school picnic
June 20 Monday Rainy hunted  ???  rainy
June 21 Tuesday cultivated corn
June 22 Wednesday cultivated corn
June 23 Thursday cultivated corn
June 24 Friday cultivated corn
June 25 Saturday cultivated spuds
June 26 Sunday to Bemidji Tillie and Harlie came home with us
June 27 Monday to Town meeting Equilization day
June 28 Tuesday
June 29 Wednesday plowed garden hauled rock from Sextons
June 30 Thursday plowed corn in PM Thresa and Tillie went to PR

Farm Diary : May 1927

May 1 Sunday sheared goats to sawmill PM Bateman ready to saw my lumber
May 2 Monday hauled and piled some lumber a hard hail storm and rain in PM
May 3 Tuesday sorted spuds Loyd and Ray Sexton helped rainy
May 4 Wednesday sorted  more spuds same help sold 192 1?2 bus at $1.00 per bu
May 5 Thursday hauled and piled number
May 6 Friday hauled and piled lumber
May 7 Saturday hauled and piled spuds Finished sawing
May 8 Sunday Rained all day and night
May 9 Monday piled some lumber took wagon back to mill and put tank on it Bateman and Anes here for dinner Van here to practice in PM rainy
May 10 Tuesday hauled lath snowed
May 11 Wednesday hauled manure PD (Played Dance) at PR in eve
May 12 Thursday hauled manure and disced gardens harrowed garden and planted some spuds and other garden
May 13 Friday disced and harrowed and plowed the ground where old machine shed stood Thresa went after chicks at Gerbers Played for dance at Osage in eve
May 14 Saturday planted my sweet corn and worked some on bridg
May 15 Sunday Geo Bateman here for dinner scaled lumber Dads and Fred and Olive and kids here for supper to church in eve
May 16 Monday worked on bridg hauled manure
May 17 Tuesday hauled manure
May 18 Wednesday hauled manure
May 19 Thursday hauled manure in the AM disced spud ground in PM
May 20 Friday rainy put in some garden fence To Osage in AM
May 21 Saturday rainy and foggy disced for corn
May 22 Sunday home fixed garden fence and put sow and pigs in goat pen Foggy Thresa and kids went to church Lutheran Concert in eve in Osage Foggy
May 23 Monday  hauled manure in AM to Zitmans Show in PM Rainy
May 24 Tuesday disced and harrowed rainy
May 25 Wednesday harrowed corn and spud ground
May 26 Thursday planted corn finished
May 27 Friday planted spuds
May 28 Saturday finished planting spuds
May 29 Sunday home in Am to cottages on lake and to Jack Mc Granes in PM to church in eve
May 30 Monday cleared out north end of garden started to plow same place
May 31 Tuesday finished plowing in garden to PR in PM

Farm Diary: April 1927

April 1 Friday hunted calf Thresa went up town in PM I split wood looked for calf in eve
April 2 Saturday found calf on Sextons place Sexton boys herd it split wood took cream Thresa went to PR with Sextons
April 3 Sunday home in AM to Lester Enfields in PM
April 4 Monday rained all day cleaned barns sacked oats for grinding fixed disk
April 5 Tuesday split wood in AM to Ella Crosbys funeral in Park Rapids very bad roads
April 6 Wednesday split wood all day
April 7 Thursday Finished splitting wood corded some wood
April 8 Friday Took feed up to get it ground took Poggy up to get her shod
April 9 Saturday
April 10 Sunday Marshals came Dads here for supper
April 11 Monday Cleaned  Oats
April 12 Tuesday cleaned wheat took cream and got a sack of wheat
April 13 Wednesday fixed harness got disk ready to disc in PM
April 14 Thursday finished discing for wheat harrowed in PM
April 15 Friday harrowed in AM rained in PM
April 16 Saturday plowed
April 17 Sunday Easter over to Dads
April 18 Monday sowed some wheat in AM helped Sexton saw in PM
April 19 Tuesday rainy done odd jobs in PM Sowed wheat in PM
April 20 Wednesday to Gerbers after chicks in AM Finished sowing wheat
April 21 Thursday Plowed
April 22 Friday Plowed
April 23 Saturday started discing for Oats
April 24 Sunday Becks here Dads here
April 25 Monday disced
April 26 Tuesday disced
April 27 Wednesday disced and harrowed
April 28 Thursday harrowed started seeding Oats
April 29 Friday sowed Oats
April 30 Saturday Finished sowing Oats to PR in PM

Farm Diary: March 1927

March 1 Tuesday to town meeting cleaned barns
March 2 Wednesday cut logs and wood
March 3 Thursday hauled logs and wood
March 4 Friday took oats to grind took cream to new butter maker at Osage hauled in some wood
March 5 Saturday helped Sexton saw wood cleaned barns
March 6 Sunday home May and Howard here in PM
March 7 Monday hauled load of wood uptown in afternoon, a store sale +opening day of creamery
March 8 Tuesday Election day to Ponsford Spelling contest in eve
March 9 Wednesday cut wood
March 10 Thursday cut wood
March 11 Friday cut + hauled wood played for dance in PR got stuck in snow coming home snowed
March 12 Saturday got car Miss Fogelburg here cut wood
March 13 Sunday home to church in eve
March 14 Monday cut both bolts and wood
March 15 Tuesday cut bolts and wood
March 16 Wednesday cut bolts and wood
March 17 Thursday cut some bolts in morn to Town meeting qualification days
March 18 Friday cut bolts Notified to sit on jury
March 19 Saturday cut bolts hauled some
March 20 Sunday hauled some bolts and wood in PM Orville Buckto chore. to church in eve
March 21 Monday started to Detroit about 6 AM Geo Sanderson went along sawed wood to home
March 22 Tuesday corting Orville split wood
March 23 Wednesday got excused home in PM Mr Turmel and Hawks came to Osage with me found Thresa in Osage with cream Orville went home
March 24 Thursday split some wood
March 25 Friday done jobs snowed hard
March 26 Saturday hauled bolts to lath mill
March 27 Sunday hauled a load of bolts to mill Dads here for dinner
March 28 Monday hauled wood in kitchen cleaned hen coop
March 29 Tuesday  hauled in some wood mulched fruit trees
March 30 Wednesday put wood in kitchen clipped goats took cream in PM
March 31 Thursday finished kitchen wood looked for calf that run a way to look at road down by McKinleys and Crafts after calf in eve we didn't get it

Farm Diary: February 1927

February 1  Tuesday cut logs to Osage in Pm took cream to corner and eggs
February 2 Wednesday cut logs all day
February 3 Thursday cut logs in AM cleaned barns and drove to Robinsons after cream can and corn we sent for in PM
February 4 Friday Quit cutting logs 370 in all at noon took Oats to Osage to get it ground John went wolf hunting I and Burt Gilpin went along got wolf to Sandersons birthday party in eve
February 5 Saturday started skiding logs snowed in eve Civib fresh
February 6 Sunday home Dads here I went to Osage after them snow too deep in road to church in eve
February 7 Monday took Sow to becks Skided logs in PM
February 8 Tuesday took Geo Mayer a load of wood Skided logs in PM
February 9 Wednesday skided logs all day
February 10 Thursday skided logs and loaded a load of stove wood in eve Miss Lucns here in eve Edn Bateman came after her
February 11 Friday to PR with wood and cream brought home some mill feed
February 12 Saturday skided logs cleaned out barns
February 13 Sunday home Miss Fogelburg here in PM to church in eve
February 14 Monday skided logs Mrs Sexton here in PM I broke trace
February 15 Tuesday skided logs cleaned barns
February 16 Wednesday we hauled in a load of stove wood cleaned chicken house finished skiding logs hauled some and cleared out roads to saw setting snow about 2 1/2 feet deep
February 17 Thursday Visited school in AM hauled logs in PM cold
February 18 Friday hauled logs
February 19 Saturday hauled logs
February 20 Sunday to Dads Frances came after us to church in eve
February 21 Monday hauled logs and cleaned barns
February 22 Tuesday cut up hog hauled logs in AM
February 23 Wednesday hauled logs
February 24 Thursday helped Robinson saw wood
February 25 Friday hauled logs and loaded a load of wood
February 26 Saturday to PR with wood and cream and eggs bought back some feed Marvin went along
February 27 Sunday home Dads here loaded wood
February 28 Monday to PR with wood brought back some corn

Farm Diary: January 1927

January 1 Saturday Chored some to Osage to dance in eve
January 2 Sunday home brought Mr and Mrs Leviness here for dinner to church in eve
January 3 Monday To Pr with wood and cream Ronald went along
January 4 Tuesday To Robinsons after bull cleaned barns and took oats to get it ground
January 5 Wednesday sorted spuds Dads here for dinner
January 6 Thursday Sorted spuds tore down log part of the old barn and skided some of the logs to repair  my bridg Thresa went to Mable Swinsons Shower
January 7 Friday cut up logs for wood around old barn
January 8 Saturday cut wood around old barn
January 9 Sunday home Jack McGranes here
January 10 Monday cleaned barns chicken house
January 11 Tuesday Filed sawes borrowed Sexton saw Ray helped me cut a few trees in PM I cut logs
January 12 Wednesday cut logs
January 13 Thursday cut logs
January 14 Friday cut logs in AM took Geo Mayer a load of wood
January 15 Saturday cut logs kids helped me Miss Fogelburg here kids and her went on sleigh ride party in eve
January 16 Sunday home Dads here in eve to Osage to church in eve
January 17 Monday to PR with wood and veal to ship bought 1,000 Ibs of corn
January 18 Tuesday got corn ground took sow to becks to telephone meeting in PM
January 19 Wednesday cut logs
January 20 Thursday cut logs
January 21 Friday cut logs
January 22 Saturday cut logs Marvin helped me
January 23 Sunday home Geo Mayer here after his corn we went to church at Osage in eve
January 24 Monday cut logs in AM to Osage in PM took cream and eggs stoped to see Jim Robinson on way back he was suffering with a sore leg
January 25 Tuesday cut logs in AM very cold cleaned barn and got cream can at the corner in PM cold
January 26 Wednesday 42 below zero cut logs
January 27 Thursday cut logs
January 28 Friday cut logs and cleaned barn
January 29 Saturday cut logs kids helped some snowed in PM and blocked roads
January 30 Sunday home Ray and Howard here in eve played cards
January 31 Monday cut logs and cleaned barns