Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - July 24, 1933

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - July 24, 1933

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

1933-07-24

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

Scripto

Transcription

Miss Taft We have at last had some rain but was a long time coming. To late for some thing such a beans and such. It has been terrible hot.

We have started picking sour cherry's with 19 pickers including myself. and could of hired 1,00 more lots of pickers Max though he would have put up a sign for pickers but in a few day he said he would have but up a sign no pickers wanted. We seem to have a nice bunch of pickers no children small except my own. Thursday 1.78 crates had quit till Monday again on accout of begin to green and pulling pits. has skip some tree in the rows to. Ever one is getting better weight since it rained and give cherry some weight There cutting on cherry for every thing thay can think of.

Even has went fine in the orchard with tickets for tallying.

Rebecca card came in are box she had gone. and cherry were sent to Alberta. and Max had bad luck to loose all his pay check after it had been cashed. we are both felling pretty blue about it and might inconvenient to.

Max has the oats cut and in the barn. floor is full. 3 load's Max said was cluster [?] then thrashing

Well I guess that all the new's except we are very busy.

Sincerly Max & Family

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