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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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