Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - June 14, 1935

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - June 14, 1935

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

1935-06-14

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

June 14, 1935

To Miss Taft

We had a few sprinkles last nite. Not enough to do any good.

The garden are not up yet. They look pretty sickly I tell you. The peas are up but hit miss. Max say seed are there but no moisture to sprout them.

Max is spraying to-day ever thing is working the best it ever did. The pump engine is running good. The spray engine to. I take care of engine at house keeping oil and gas and looking after water tank and ever thing ready when Max comes back from the orchard. He has put on five tanks to-day and he said he could never do that before. We are pumping all the water this year as Wunch has not a very big supply on account of dry year.

Ronald is makeing a very good teamster. Max say help him a lot holding lines. Max does the talking to team. Max though he would have to hire a man this morning. At they didn't seem to want to work down and go slow.

I am sending a clipping from Grand Rapids press about cherries talk.

I guess that all new's.

Sour cherries crop is just fair. Max say some tree's are loaded and then again there not. But sweet are loaded.

Sincerely Max + Hazel

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