Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - June 2, 1914

Miss Taft Your sweetcorn and carrots are in the ground and I forgot to tell you in the other letter there is about 3 bu. of your seed potatoes left. Mrs. Stutsmans corn and oats are up and her orchards are plowed and most all dragged and your oats and peas are growing good, also corn. The pear trees are loaded also most of the apple trees and cherries are loaded. The chicken yard has been up for some time. I disked the orchard again Do you want the strips up in the cherry orchard where the vetch was plowed around the trees or all plowed the vetch winter killed and the rye is pretty thick around the trees but not much of any in between the rows. I sowed ninteen bushel of oats here and 6 over at S.-. I planted planted a half-bushel corn. I planted all of your sweet corn and some of ours Evergreen on the piece back of the barn one pkg. of yours the worms had nearly eat up. I burnt the tent worms out of the trees once and will have to again as the woods are all full of them and they are traveling all across the land. Dick is all right now just as good as he was last year the reason I didn't say any thing about him was because I thought if you wanted to get a new team next spring we could get along with him till then and save your buying another horse. Ralph Kitchen