Blanche, Ethel and I are planting a cut flower garden. We ordered off for a sample of gladioli bulbs. They are fat, healthy bulbs, so we're ordering off for 200, and some dahlias and peony roots. We made a list of seeds and are ordering off to H.G. Hastings Company for snapdragons, sweet peas, and stocks. In the fall we plan ordering 500 daffodils and some roman hyacinths.
We talked to Mrs. Abernathy about whether she could use our cutflowers in her florist. Sometimes the wholesale florists in Atlanta don't send enough so if there's a big furneral, she may be able to use some.
Ethel and Blanche are going to get 4-H calves, Jerseys. The two cows we have provide more than enough milk and butter for our family and we sometimes sell some to neighbors. If we have more milk cows we may be able to make butter to sell to the grocery store in town. Daddy says we can order off for a big churn. The one in the Sears catalog is a 33 gallon churn. You fill it half full and turn a crank. It's a wooden barrel in a stand and the crank is like the crank on the T-model Ford, at which we've all had a turn. We think it would be easier and faster than standing with a dasher and an earthen churn for just two or three gallons of buttermilk and some few cakes of butter.
We're hearing that boll weevils were in some cotton fields last year. Daddy is worried about what that may do for cotton here.
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My cousin, Hubert, sold eggs in Knoxville. He lived in Sevierville and traveled by wagon. He said it was a 3 day trip. One day to reach town, one day spent selling eggs and picking up supplies and one day to travel back home.
Grandpa lived in Knoxville, he used to take the boys to Sevierville to go rabbit hunting .. Daddy loved those trips.
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