Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - March 6, 1934

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - March 6, 1934

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

1934-03-06

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

To Miss Taft

At last we have a break in are cold weather with a rain all day Friday and all nite and next day to. Are both big pond's have started. I was wishing we would get by with out our lake's But I guess hardly to be expected with as much snow as we have got. The cellar was full of water and barn basement to. Ever things was so full of frost and such a sudden change in weather. Max could not even throw down hay had bring it down by fork full.

Tom Richard took queen at $30.00 no money. Max tried to get $60.00 out of Nell. but coudn't zoulek diden't want her. and Bill Marshall wouldn't pay that much for so old a horse. So took her at $55.00 cash with recipt in envelope. 

5 gas $0.95 1 qt oil at .25 per qt. to Elk Rapids
5 "   $0.95 1 qt oil "   "   "   "  to Mayfield
5 "   $0.95 1 qt oil "   "   "   "  to Traverse City 2 trip
5 "   $0.95 1 qt oil "   "   "   "  to Elk Rapids
5 "   $0.95 1 qt oil "   "   "   "  to Sutton Bay.

The last two trip's to traverse when went to look at team and had to take Max up to drive them home. I had to take $1.20 out of the farm use $5.00

There all waiting for some cherry money which was said thay might get in March.

Max say there one horse that he don't know if he going to keep in the new team.

Max say her wind is a little off. sometime can see it and again you can not notice it. He said there wind was perfect. Max is after him so is he looking for a mate for Ness. But are an ideal team other way's Max has tried them on different pulls.

Max is cutting up the fallen tree's 3 of them 1/2 barrel of lime a sulphur. No arnate of lead yes I told Max I had earned a new dress writing horse news. If I can only make him belive it ha ha.

I guess that all the new's

Sincerely

Max & Family

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