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Franklin McMillan Diary, 1928
Franklin McMillan Diary 1928 16.pdf
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April 15th: Sunday. Cold & cloudy, windy and a few snow flurries. Temperature 24 tonight at 7 p.m.
April 16th: Started spraying plums & pears with oil. 7 gallons to tank. Got one tank on everything going wrong.
April 17th: New planting trees. Got 4 tanks of spray on today, weather still cold. Ground covered with snow this morning.
April 18th: Spraying. Got 5 tanks on. Still planting trees.
April 19th: Unloaded car of manure. Very cold and one of the worst gales of the season.
April 20th: Very cold this morning, ground frozen. Finished oil spraying, 2 tanks, 12 tanks in all. April 21st: We received Buds on Sweet Cherries, afraid not many will grow. Started snowing & raining about 3 p.m. at 9 p.m. tonight, ground covered with snow, still snowing.
April 22nd: Still cold & cloudy.
April 23rd: Started unearthing strawberries, tomatoes in jail for being drunk.
April 24th: Cold & cloudy, have a bad stretch in my back making out income tax papers.
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