26 May 2015

Farm Work

May 22, 1930  Jacob sowed the last wheat.  Corney harrowed.  Mary cleaned another room.  Mama made food.  Jacob sowed barley.  Corney, Johan, and I got barley from Reids.
Finally, they planted the last wheat in Manitoba.  They had started on April 25, but there had been so much rain that it was only on May 22 when they got the last of it sowed. 

Cornelius was hard-working, and it was very important to him that his children learn to work.  You can see the value he placed on work because most of his diary entries record that work that was done that day.  This day is a classic example of that because he tells the work that each person did, what each person did to contribute to the development of the farm.

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