March 6

Everything froze up, 10 above zero this morning at Hayden. Went to Sunday-school. Mabel, Aunt Maude, Donald and Violet went with us, only 60 out. Came home did the noon chores and went down to Mabels. The folks, grandpa, Ezra's were there. Covered my 3 coops with old rugs, coats and comforts. Seemed colder.

March 5

Real cloudy and a cold misty rain which turned to snow this afternoon. Ground was all white by night. Took off 11 more chicks. Did the usual days work and read the papers.

March 4

Cold wind from the North. Fixed a chicken coop and took off 10. Some more hatching. Hog market 4.50. Cream 24 cents. Eggs 8 cents. Worked with chickens some way or other all day. We put powder on hens tonight. Bill and his dad were down. Grandpa was here this P.M.

March 3

Helped to put powder on Mam's chickens for lice. Read the papers and did some odd jobs. Helped Ora to rake cobs in hog lot and visited Violet a while this afternoon. Raining some. Violet, Bill, Ora and I went down to Mabels tonite. Rained very hard while we were there. Col. Lindberg's baby was kidnapped Tuesday night. Heard about Alice and Pete Hall's split up. Set a hen.

March 2

Ora and I culled mam's chickens. Took 14 head to Dodds; 12 cents a lb. Went to North Vernon to Dr. Stopped taking the drop medicine. Patched two old pair of overalls this afternoon. Chicks beginning to hatch.

MARCH 1, 1932

Rather cloudy all day and raining some tonite. Did the ironing and some patching. Violet and her mother were down this afternoon. Robert was here tonight, we had a real argument on religion. The boys finished gathering corn today, last years crop. They raised about 2400 bushels of corn this year.

February 29

'Tis the leap day of the leap year. Nice warm sunshine all day. Did the washing and made two quilt blocks. Several odd jobs this evening. Also read the papers. Sold twenty dozen eggs to the Schlosser man, at nine cents. The boys hauled the good hay from the stack, back on the hill, into the barn.