Week of August 23, 1960

Tuesday, August 23, 1960

Rain starting in AM and continued most of day.

Tobacco market opened average 57.65

9 sold about 1500 lbs

Cut poles until stop by rain

Labor came to town to tobacco market.

Hauled load silage to cows

Wednesday, August 24, 1960

Cloudy and Cool

Land Wet

Cutting poles and slats and hauling to field.

Cutting tobacco stalks                         

Thursday, August 25, 1960

Cloudy with rain @ 1 pm

Hauling out poles and slats

Building Fence @ back pasture gate

Cutting Tobacco stalks-Joe

Discing tobacco fields-Tucker

I went to a hospital meeting @ 3 to 5 pm.

(?) cutting pole slats 

Friday, August 26, 1960

Misty Rain, Cloudy and Cool

Land very wet from 2 ½ inches rain and misty rain most of the day.

Arthur and Norman worked 4 hr in am (messing) then they came into town and I let them have some money

Saturday August 27, 1960 

Fair and Cool

No Farm

I gave the (?) a pig; they had a Bar-B-Q

 

Sunday, August 28, 1960

Fair to cloudy and hot

All at home

I slept till 8, ate and went back to bed till 12

Guests  left @ 9 pm

I did not go to farm today.

 

Monday, August 29, 1960

Fair Very Very Hot and Humid

Cutting weeds at end of corn field and hauling the corn to cows

Mowing some ditches

I got two men from Princeville to

cut weeds out of Beans (south side of cabin)

Sold 1300 lbs of tobacco today at average of 65 cents.