Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - October 17, 1920

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - October 17, 1920

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

1920-10-17

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. 17th 1920

My Dear Miss Taft:-

Today is Sunday and we are going to Traverse City for dinner. But I feel it my duty to sit down & write to you first so we can mail the letter in town.

I was up to see Mr. P. yesterday about your apples & all he will pay is $1.00 a hundren in bulk for no.1 & no.2. Joseph will have to bring them to town in the wagon. Now what do you wish to have done with them. We could store them in the cellar & sell them this winter & perhaps get more out of them. Now please let us know by return mail.

Your hogs are getting very plump & will soon be fat enough for market. They eat 3 bu. of corn every day.

Mr. B. entered a complaint about the 9 smaller ones so we had to take the extra lumber & fence them in so it take food for them too. He said if we did not close them up he would have to send you a bill for damages Mrs Haywood says he is laughing abou it now. They were too nice to suit his taste I am glad you are not so hateful as he is.

Yes we had that wave of cold weather strike us too & Joseph did not have the corn all cut & hired Mr.Lannin 1 1/2 day to help him & the following night it froze hard everything was white but have had lovely weather since. Your corn will soon be safe in the crib. There is a large field of it so it will take some time to care for it all. And it takes a lot of his time to do the chores.

We have not found any team yet that you would care to own.

I will go over & try to find your cloth & will be only too glad to mail it to you. You may be sure dear that I would be so glad to get those papers ot read & thank you many times for your thought & kindness. I will try to find time during the week to write another letter to you. We had to get 5 lbs of nails & 2 batteries & ball of binding twine for corn.

5 lbs nails .45 23.46 2 batteries .90 7.45 _____ 1 ball twine 1.60 16.01 1 1/2 days labor 4.50 to your credit ____ 7.45 [$].26 left for old account 16.00 From C.G Taft 7.20 cider apples ______ 23.46

Your snaps were received are just what he wanted.

With love Essie

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