Anonymous Kansas Farmers Diary August/September 1890

August 1890

2 finished plowing 13 ½ A. for Stuart charged him $115 cts per akr Plowed this 13 ½ in 4 days

2 [illegible] his $168

2 Mr Maret Died

3 Hot

4 Hot + dry

5 Hot dry + heating

6 Red hot + still heating

7 Hot + dry

8 Hot + dry

9 Dry + hot

10 hot hoter heating red hot

11 rained one inch cold

12

28 finished plowing 50 akers

28 finished cutting 425 shocks of corn 14 hills square paid 5 cts. A shock + the boarded themselves

September 1890

1 sold 52 bushels of wheat for 87 cts a bushel

1 sold choral Stuard 50 bushel of oragon red

2 colored men got through sawing wood

2bought a pair shoes for $3 + hat for 95 cts

5 Sold Stuard a harrow for $14

6 [illegible] $222.90

8 Start to Kansas city

8 the boys started to school

16 got home from my KC trip

21 Ellick Ewing came

22 Bought a car for $25 + Harness for $10

27 [Louera] got 6.B. of wheat

30 Stuart for 17.B. of wheat