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charliep, you are busy reading about we're we are headed, and I'm reading about where we've been, from the boxed archives:
Excerpts from a letter written by my Mother as a child, in Saskatchewan, TO her Aunt in the USA dated:
May 1st, 1919:
"We certainly have got some warm weather here, ......
"we do not need any more rain just now..."
"We are seeding wheat down here. It is a rather late spring this year."
"We have got 18 horses and 120 head of cattle and 4 quarter sections of land also 100 chickens, 10 pigs so we are kept pretty busy. We ar going to build a horse barn this summer."
Weather-wishing is a practiced art. LOL May 1st and it's late? LOL Choretime, huh, charliep. Can you milk a cow? LOL Pars
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fran, this is for you:
3 pigs shipped to Winnipeg, March 15, 1949, Weiller and Williams
1 grade A pig
Warm Dressed Weight 164 lbs.
Price per 100lbs $29.50
Amount $48.38
2 grade B1 pig
Warm Dressed Weight 345 lbs.
Price per 100lbs $29.10
Amount $100.39
Government premium $4.00
Gross Value $148.77
Condemantion Insurance #0.74
Net Value $148.03
Commission 640@.80cents $5.12
142.91
Premium 4.00
146.91
They listed 14 categories of pigs that could be shipped! All hand written.Pars
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Here's an interesting view for you to mull, over your morning coffee:
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We are renovatoing our attic. Our house was built in 1905, so we have found many little treasures (No Piles of cash..) But to add to Pars historical pricing we found a Kern Farm Equipment Catalogue from 1956.
Nuffield Universal Tractor Model PM4 $2345 (Gas) and a DM4 $2952 (Diesel) Guessing these were 40 HP. If you wanted to load them up with lamps seat cusion and a wrap around canvas you were looking at another $250.
41 ft 4" Hutchinson Grain Auger would set you back $289
12 Diomand Harrow would set you back $169.50
A 40 Twin Draulic Sprayer with 200 Gallon tank would set you back $594.85
Its much more fun to look back than ahead.
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