Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - October 26, 1914

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - October 26, 1914

Subject

Old Mission Peninsula (Mich.)
Agriculture
Farmers
Crops and climate

Description

Carolyn Gay Taft (1873-1952), was the owner of a small cherry farm on Old Mission Peninsula in the early 1900’s. While she spent her summers on the Peninsula, her primary job as a teacher at the Illinois State School for the Deaf required hired hands to run the farm in her absence. These farmers, and their families, lived on the farm and sent frequent written reports to Ms. Taft. Most letters are written by the farmer’s wives, and provide a record of both agricultural and social history.

Creator

Ralph Kitchen, Joseph Kitchen, Essie Kitchen, Max Gilmore, Hazel Gilmore

Source

Collection donated to Peninsula Community Library by the surviving members of the Taft family.

Publisher

Peninsula Community Library

Date

1914-10-26

Contributor

Mary T Morgan

Rights

This document is protected by copyright law. Contact the Peninsula Community Library for permission to reproduce, display, or transmit this document.

Relation

None

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Document

Identifier

LHC 010

Coverage

Traverse City, Peninsula Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan

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Transcription

Old Mission, Mich. Oct. 26, 1914 Miss Taft- We have had some very nice weather but today it is snowing and hailing for the first time and blowing some. Yes I left two barrels at Mr. S to pay for the ones you had before you left. I took four barrels over there that belong to you with 3 1/2 bbls. of no. 1. Wagnor apples in them. There is 161 bu. of corn now in the crib and 12 shocks to husk yet. I don't know what Crampton means about one shoe. I never got just one nor had just one reset I got two new shoes last winter that is all the shoes I did get. I have not had him Dick shod since you left. The potatoes were just as ripe as they ever would be as they were killed by blight and a great many peoples potatoes were killed by blight this year. Yes I will take the potatoes at 30 cts. a bu. I cut off the branches you spoke about. I havnt used the saw yet it is in the case it came in yet. I put the bolt in the little tree but the other two are to long. Those apples I thought were Stark I havn't picked yet and I don't know what either them or the ones by the Tolman Sweets are. The horses havn't been in the pasture for a month. The new seeding is doing fine. We are saving the coon pelt untill the season opens. that will be next Sunday. I have not cracked up the big stones yet. I helped Mr. S. pick apples two days last week and helped Willard thrash one forenoon last week and Ledger thrashed the day Mr. S. and I went to town. We took twelve bags of your oats and there are eight or ten bu. more that wont go in the bins. I put the cellar window in. I havn't picked the Ben Davis apples yet I don't know what to do with them unless I put them in the cellar and ship them in the spring as the canning factory and cider apples are not going to take any more than what they already have sacks out for. Dick has a lame leg I don't know what is the trouble weather he steped on a corn stubble or what is the matter but it is swelled the whole length and matter runs out his fetlock I am doctoring it. Ralph Kitchen.

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