Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - March 22, 1915

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - March 22, 1915

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

1915-03-22

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

March 22, 1915 Miss Taft- We wont need any grain for the cow as long as the carrots last and their are about 8 bu. yet. I have 50 lb. of middlings that I can feed her if she needs it before I go to town. I took the partition out and made her a box stall which makes a nice place for Bessie. Yes I think we can treat the oats in the wagon box and then dry them on the stack cover. Dick's foot has healed up I got the condition powder the same day I did your letter and am giving it to him acording to directions Yes I can disk the one acre plot for oats. I picked up the brush and hauled it to the thistle patch and burned it. Miss Fairbanks was just in here and got a sack of Ben Davis apples to try there are about 20 bu. of them in the cellar. I have the stones about half picked up on the corn field. what stones I can't get out of the ground I bury those that are to big to burn. I would like enough w? so I could put two stra? around the barn yard so I could turn the cow in there. The horses are all right Ralph.

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