Various pages from Medford MacLeod's farm journal, kept from 1958-1967, that mention community news in the Central West River/Six Mile Brook Area
Page 1, year was 1960:
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April 16 |
Finished cutting up furnace wood |
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Fine and warm 2 ft of snow in woods |
“ 18 |
Finished splitting furnace wood – fense posts |
“ 20 |
Started to put out manure cool and sunny |
“ 30 |
“ to harrow still cold and dry |
May 3 |
Sowed first oats |
“ 4 |
Start to plant spuds hot and dry |
“ 9 |
Finished spuds 11 bus |
“ 11 |
Cherry blossoms are out |
“ 14 |
Rain last two days and cooler |
“ 18 |
Finished putting out manure 170 loads |
“ 21 |
“ sowning below road 55 bus |
“ 30 |
“ “ oats 82 bus hot as hell |
June 27 |
Started the hay |
“ 28 |
Up to New Brunswick today |
July 23 |
½ in rain fell first this summer |
“ 26 |
Finished hay all but pastures |
“ 29 |
D.B. MacLeod left for Ontario |
Aug 2 |
Finished hay 2075 bales |
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Still hot and dry |
“ 9 |
Got a new Ford Combine $1200.00 – 150.00 F |
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Start to cut grain |
“ 19 |
95° in the shade everything is |
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Turning brown |
“25 |
39° above this morning |
Page 2, year was 1963:
June 12 |
Finished sowing oats 76 bus |
“ 16 |
Rained all day biggest rain this spring |
“ 25 |
Up to Moncton hottest day yet 82° |
July 3 |
Started hay |
“ 6 |
Baled first day 10 bales |
“ 14 |
Fine and hot last 3 days got 183 bales in |
“ 19 |
Bad thunder storm first night 1 in rain |
“ 28 |
Hot as hell last 3 days in the 90s |
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Have 1501 bales hay in |
Aug 17 |
Finished hay 3145 bales |
“ 19 |
Up to Moncton airport |
Sept 2 |
Started to cut grain |
“ 14 |
“ “ below henhouse |
“15 |
First frost |
“ 16 |
Finished grain 775 bus |
“ 19 |
“ straw 655 bales |
Oct 7 |
“ spuds 190 bus warm and sunny 70° |
Oct 8 |
Another election to-day P39 L4 |
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Start to plow |
“ 10 |
D.S. Clark died 81 years old |
“ 27 |
Still warm and dry 70 ° above every day |
“28 |
Painting to-day |
“28 |
Spread 16 ton of lime started to rain |
“29 |
Hurricane Ginny this afternoon and |
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Evening heavy rain this morning |
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Moon shining to-night |
Page 3, year was 1963 and 1964:
Nov 5 |
Last day cows were out |
“ 11 |
Finished plowing wet last 2 days |
“ 14 |
Put cattle all in for winter |
“ 17 |
First shift snow last night away this morning |
“27 |
Finished cement wall in new building 21 bags |
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D.B. Macleod was in this afternoon |
“30 |
Rained all day with gales of 100 miles/hr above 65° |
“14 |
Cutting bushes 9° above this morning sunny |
Dec 18 |
2 in snow and cold cutting bushes |
“ 19 |
Worst blizzard evr known lights |
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Went off 7:15 to-night came on 9:30 next day |
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Down near zero froze water at henhouse |
“25 |
More snow last night 32° above to-day |
“27 |
13 below this morning fine sunny |
“28 |
22 “ last night at Stellarton |
“ 31 |
Started to woods only got half |
1964 |
Way back over 2 ft snow 4° above |
Jan 2 |
Got a road to woods rained last night |
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Snow still over [ancle?] of tractor |
“4 |
Start to cut firewood wet snow this afternoon |
“8 |
More snow about 6 ins 2 feet in wood |
“10 |
Rain and gales all day took 6 in snow away |
“11 |
Finished firewood cold and windy |
“ 13 |
Got 3 loads of furnace wood home |
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Fine and sunny 8° above |
Page 4, year was 1964 and 1965:
Sept 22 |
Finished the grain around 600 bus |
“ 29 |
“ straw 792 bales |
Oct 1 |
Started to dig spuds eggs are 249 320 380 |
“ 10 |
Finished spuds 265 bus everything |
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Is all muddy misting rain all week |
“ 21 |
Started to plow water up to axles |
“ 31 |
Plowing pasture next S [cotts?] ear froze |
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Snowflurries all afternoon |
Nov 14 |
Alex MacKenzie died 76 years old |
“ 17 |
5 ins sow got cattle all in to-night |
“ 20 |
Rain this morning warm and sunny |
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This afternoon snow near all away |
“ 23 |
Finished plowing 18° above this AM |
Dec 4 |
Started to snow to-night |
“ 6 |
1 foot of snow |
“11 |
3° below this morning cut a few logs this week |
“ 13 |
Warm last 2 days in the 40 ies |
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Now is half gone sunny like spring |
Dec 21 |
Snow and wind 10 ins near zero |
“24 |
“ started to go way |
“27 |
Still warm snow all away grass |
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Is green 40 at night 50 or more in daytime |
“30 |
Silver thaw about 1 in on ice on wires |
Jan 3 65 |
About 5 ins of snow still freezing |
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Rain trees are all ice woods |
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Are all bogs and water |
Page 5, year was 1967:
May 2 |
Finished cutting up furnace wood |
“ 3 |
Intervales have 2 to 8 ft of snow |
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On them yet tractor was up to onles |
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Getting down with junk |
“ 11 |
Put out two loads manure first |
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Since last Dec snow banks in fields yet |
“20 |
Still wet snow yet on bank of intervals |
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Got 27 loads manure out |
“ 23 |
Sowed first oats 4 acres snow yet on |
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Bank of swamp |
“26 |
rain all last night and to-day fields |
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Are all under water |
June 1 |
Put cows out |
“ 2 |
“ 4 loads manure out fields are bogs |
“ 6 |
Start to plant spuds warm 90° above |
“ 9 |
Finished spuds 13 ½ bus |
“ 17 |
“ manure 182 loads and 10 ton lime |
“ 27 |
“ sowing oats 70 bus |
“ 30 |
Bill Grant fied |
July 8 |
Started to cut hay hot as hell |
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D.B. got his tractor got a Ford roke 8475.00 |
Aug 21 |
Finished hay 3600 bales |
“22 |
Started to cut grain |
“25 |
“ “ D.B. hay |
“ 31 |
Down to C.B. traveled 376 miles hot |
Sept 2 |
Rained all day grains all down |
Page 6, cattle info:
"West River Marguerite 492468
Born Jan 24/58
sire Grenfield Richard
dan West River Irma
Charles R. Fraser $125.00
West River Robin - 407565
Born Feb 15/68
sire Watermead Air Pilot
dam West River Goldie
Lawrence Gray $130.00
West River Madge - 546489
" " Beauty - dam R
sire Watermead Air Pilot
dam for madge West River Alice
Percy Emery $75.00 a piece"
Part of the MacLeod Papers
Digital copies at McCulloch House
File number: | MacLeod Papers 67 |
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