Description Farm Journal, 1958-1967

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

 

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

 

Still hot and dry

“ 9

Got a new Ford Combine $1200.00 – 150.00 F

 

Start to cut grain

“ 19

95° in the shade everything is

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Evening heavy rain this morning

 

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

 

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

 

Went off 7:15 to-night came on 9:30 next day

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Is all muddy misting rain all week

“ 21

Started to plow water up to axles

“ 31

Plowing pasture next S [cotts?] ear froze

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Rain trees are all ice woods

 

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

 

On them yet tractor was up to onles

 

Getting down with junk

“ 11

Put out two loads manure first

 

Since last Dec snow banks in fields yet

“20

Still wet snow yet on bank of intervals

 

Got 27 loads manure out

“ 23

Sowed first oats 4 acres snow yet on

 

Bank of swamp

“26

rain all last night and to-day fields

 

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

 

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"

Alternate Details

Part of the MacLeod Papers

File Location

Digital copies at McCulloch House

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