Kootenay
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I've been trying to scour the local archives on the web for more information on this old farm we now rent. Not too much luck yet, but I did dig out an old Farmer's Account Book that I found when we moved in. The earliest date on the ledger is 1929
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Here are a few of the entries: With most spelling mistakes and shorthand intact.
(I'll take pictures of this book here soon)
March 18, 1929-Planted seed in frame
March 18, 1929-Short Calfed (Shortie)
April 4, 1929-Planted trees-no water around (Planting all done)
April 18, 1929-Planted Glads Spinach, let (lettuce transplanted in frame)
April 15, 1929-Spraying
April 20, 1929- (Queenie calfed) (Ada sick in bed)
April 19, 1929-Chrysanthemums planted in frame
April 20, 1929-took iris to store
April 22,1929- Planted peas (cucumbers in frame) lettuce beets carrots
Year: 1930
Feb.27 -Pa got his teeth out in Nelson
Feb- Mr Graham was buried
March 10-Mrs Borrow in hospital (getting packing house cleaned out)
March 14- Lot's of snow around. Ma planted lettuce in frame (Pa pruning).
Mary reading. Alex got new books. (unreadable),,busy on wedding cake.
March 16- Hauling away snow
17- Planted seeds. (Mary made beer). Lots of snow
20- Buggy to town (building chimbley (sp) ) 53 day 6lb butter
22- (Wedding cake arrived)
23- Alex hauling logs down
24- Snowing today
April 2- Mary's wedding day
6- Went into Benton Hidd Barclay's (no snow)
7- Planted Chrysanthemums in frame. Also out-side.
8- Planted Glads. Plowed the onion and pea patch
14- Planted late Cob asters (Chrysanthemums planted in front of house ' spinach, rhubabrb. (water melons)
19- Planted peas, lettuce, spinach 54 Day Eggs
21- 100 baby chicks (Spot calfed out)
26- Planted (? unreadable) 59 day eggs
27- Planted glads carrots (? unreadable cherries in blossom) 5 lbs Butter
28- Planted chrysanthemums out between trees (sold some)
29- (Spot still missing) Pa went to a meeting.
May 19- Planted melons carrots cucumber beans corn
May 26- hard frost
27- Planted tomatoes (petunias in frame)
30- Sold chrysanthemums, daisy, pansy, etc.
June 12- planted (illegible), baby's breath, daisy, spinach
July 2- Planted beans near barn (Woodwards (illegible) today )
Planted tomatoes in back of house
July 18- picking black currant, (illegible), cherries, cabbage, Peas, roses, pansy's
Sept 13- Pullets started today, Sold chrysanthemums at market.
Sept- (illegible) picked 150 (illegible), 258 winter apples
Oct 23- Market to close the end of Oct.
Nov 12- lot's of snow
There's just a sample of what's in that book. I can type out more if anyone is interested in a historical look at the amazing past of this house/land.
:Kim
Here are a few of the entries: With most spelling mistakes and shorthand intact.
(I'll take pictures of this book here soon)
March 18, 1929-Planted seed in frame
March 18, 1929-Short Calfed (Shortie)
April 4, 1929-Planted trees-no water around (Planting all done)
April 18, 1929-Planted Glads Spinach, let (lettuce transplanted in frame)
April 15, 1929-Spraying
April 20, 1929- (Queenie calfed) (Ada sick in bed)
April 19, 1929-Chrysanthemums planted in frame
April 20, 1929-took iris to store
April 22,1929- Planted peas (cucumbers in frame) lettuce beets carrots
Year: 1930
Feb.27 -Pa got his teeth out in Nelson
Feb- Mr Graham was buried
March 10-Mrs Borrow in hospital (getting packing house cleaned out)
March 14- Lot's of snow around. Ma planted lettuce in frame (Pa pruning).
Mary reading. Alex got new books. (unreadable),,busy on wedding cake.
March 16- Hauling away snow
17- Planted seeds. (Mary made beer). Lots of snow
20- Buggy to town (building chimbley (sp) ) 53 day 6lb butter
22- (Wedding cake arrived)
23- Alex hauling logs down
24- Snowing today
April 2- Mary's wedding day
6- Went into Benton Hidd Barclay's (no snow)
7- Planted Chrysanthemums in frame. Also out-side.
8- Planted Glads. Plowed the onion and pea patch
14- Planted late Cob asters (Chrysanthemums planted in front of house ' spinach, rhubabrb. (water melons)
19- Planted peas, lettuce, spinach 54 Day Eggs
21- 100 baby chicks (Spot calfed out)
26- Planted (? unreadable) 59 day eggs
27- Planted glads carrots (? unreadable cherries in blossom) 5 lbs Butter
28- Planted chrysanthemums out between trees (sold some)
29- (Spot still missing) Pa went to a meeting.
May 19- Planted melons carrots cucumber beans corn
May 26- hard frost
27- Planted tomatoes (petunias in frame)
30- Sold chrysanthemums, daisy, pansy, etc.
June 12- planted (illegible), baby's breath, daisy, spinach
July 2- Planted beans near barn (Woodwards (illegible) today )
Planted tomatoes in back of house
July 18- picking black currant, (illegible), cherries, cabbage, Peas, roses, pansy's
Sept 13- Pullets started today, Sold chrysanthemums at market.
Sept- (illegible) picked 150 (illegible), 258 winter apples
Oct 23- Market to close the end of Oct.
Nov 12- lot's of snow
There's just a sample of what's in that book. I can type out more if anyone is interested in a historical look at the amazing past of this house/land.
:Kim
