Shipped cooped chickens. Went to Red Bud to funeral of Mr. Clemens Schlotmann, wasn’t so large. Uncle Fred & A. [Aunt] Mary were up, making garden. We planted out some more tomatoe [sic] plants this eve. Bert [Bertille] painted kitchen chairs & table this afternoon.
Friday, May 5, 1939
Filed Under: 1939, May, Tillie's News Diaries from the 1930s Tagged With: Aunt Mary, Birkner, Brand, chickens, death, died, funeral, gardening, painting, planting, raising_chickens, redecorating, Red_Bud, Schlotmann, Uncle Fred
Thursday, May 4, 1939
Pap went to Waterloo, took wheat along; just 72 [cents]. Went to Kleins this afternoon, they brought 100 W. Wyandottes along from Illmo Hatchery $6.20; we got about 125 out of our hatch, of 240 eggs very poor. we got about 228 chicks now altogether with 10 hens. Oliver Birkner brought sack mash & coop to ship old hens 2 dozen. We painted kitchen floor green this eve.
Filed Under: 1939, May, Tillie's News Diaries from the 1930s Tagged With: Anton, Birkner, Brand, chicks, eggs, Illmo_Hatchery, Klein, painting_floor, raising_chickens, redecorating, sack_mash, Waterloo, wheat, Wyandott, Wyandotte_eggs, Wyandott_eggs
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