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Franklin McMillan Diary, 1927

Franklin McMillan 1927 Diary 12.pdf

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had a bad wind storm tonight but not much rain. blew some trees over and blew a lot of plums off.

July 13th Picked 35 bskt Richmond cherries spraying Montmorency cherries. more wind tonight and some rain

July 14th. Raining this morning got two teeth pulled very sore with an absess

July 15th showery again cut 45 crates Cabbages at 80 & 90¢ crate

Juy 16th. Cloudy looks like more rain, men hoeing.

July 17th. Sunday. Fine. had a bad face where I got teeth pulled very sore

July 18th. Monday picked 12 bskts Beans sold at 80¢ 45 crate 17 crates Cabb 80¢ 18 bskts Richmond cherries $1 00 only had 100 bskt Richmonds picked 2 x 36 Rasps for the first sold at 15¢ pint

July 19th Spraying cherries 3rd time for Some of them. Sowed 3 pecks White Sweet Clover Seed on old strawberry patch for a trial

July 20th Cooler today. picking a few cherries.

July 21 Picked 5 crates Rasps a few Beans Cabbages & cherries

July 22 Started picking afew Montmorency at $1.15¢ but no demand yet and Cabbages no sale at all

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