Anonymous Kansas Farmers Diary August/September 1890
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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
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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
Citation
Anonymous Farmer, “Anonymous Kansas Farmers Diary August/September 1890,” KU Libraries Exhibits, accessed December 6, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/items/show/9557.