Scott Hill Farm 1950

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Kentucky Farm Record Book
Walter Scott - 1950
Meade County, Guston
Cash summary

Expenses ------- Income
Hired Labor 513.74 Cattle sales 509.42
Machinery Hired 1407.5 Hog sales 182.8
Feeds bought 207.6 Wool 43.5
Fertilizer & Lime 554.57 Sheep and lambs 419.33
Supplies 11 Income from poultry 165.73
Seeds & plants 52.53 Income from eggs 144.79
Gas & oil 281.8 Income from crops 454
Repairs & maintenance 215.93 Government payments 32.6
Taxes 81.13 Wood, timber, posts 538.5
Insurance on buildings 25.5
Interest on notes and mortgages 192
Electricity 20
Telephone 6
Auto 100
Veterinary & medicine 22.5
3691.8 2490.67

Income from animals

Date Kind Number Weight Amount received
  Income from cows      
April 18 Bangs cows 2 1145 154.57
July 11 Cow (bangs) 1 600 108.00
Sept 6 Cow not bred (22 1/2) 1 660 146.00
Nov 3 Spotted heifer 1 740 150.85
      total 509.42
         
  Income from Hogs      
Feb 2 Sow 1 300 45.00
Apr 18 fat Hog 1 205 32.8
July 18 Boar - CC Hardaway 1 100 35
           - Stith Bros 1 100 35
           - CT Dowell 1 120 35
      total 182.80
  Income from sheep      
Feb 2 Ram 1 160 lb 15.00
June 5 Wool 14 87 43.50
June 5 Lambs (28 1/2) 4 390  
June 5 Sheep (8 1/2) 1 145 120.86 (lambs & sheep
July 12 Lambs (27 1/4) 7 650 173.4
Sept 6 Lambs 2 205 58.00
Sept Lambs 2 185 52.00
      total 462.83
         
  Income from Poultry      
March 23 hens 27 152 29.80
April 25 hens   137 28.77
July 6 fryers 20   18.00
July 13 fryers 30   28.00
July 12 fryers Wild Bill 5   5.00
July 14 fryers 2   2.00
    2   2.00
Sept young roosters 18   16.16
  33 pullets     36
      total 165.73

Income from eggs

Date Number Dozen Sold Amount Received
Jan 5 11 3.30
Jan 14 34 8.75
Jan 21 24 6.24
Jan 28 27 6.96
Feb 4 34 8.84
Feb 11 25 6.50
Feb 18 25 6.50
Mar 2 39 10.53
Mar 18 52 14.56
Apr 1 19 5.40
April 19 5.40
May 13 3.38
  4 1.00
Jun 3 .75
June 6 1.68
Oct   5.00
Nov   20.00
Dec   30.00
  total 144.79

Income from Crops

Tobacco

gross income 714.00

paid Wild Bill  200.00
        wood         10.00
    Part on cow   50.00
            total     260.00

net income       454.00

Other farm income

Government payments
June 5, 1949  received 32.50

  Wood, lumber, posts  
May 19 Logs W.O. 235.00
May 26 Logs W.O. 161.00
June 2 Logs B.O. 100.00
Oct 10 Lum Hamilton   18.50
Sept Craycroft 24.00
  total 538.50

W.O. white oak
B.O. black oak

 

Expenses - Hired Labor

Date Kind of work done Number of days Total amount paid
Jan Bush cutting 10 60.00
Feb 4 Bush cutting 3 9.00
Feb 11 Bush piling   21.00
Feb 18 Cutting posts   12.00
Feb 25     22.00
Mar 18 Piling brush   7.50
April 22   3 1/2 8.75
April 1     7.50
May 6   3 7.50
April 29   3 7.50
May 13   2 5.00
May 20     9.00
May 27     10.00
  to Wild Bill   9.44
July 7 Dewey   12.00
July 7 Walter Brown work on barn   3.00
July 14 Dewey 5 15.00
July 11 Brown 2 6.00
July 11 Murphy 6 1/2 13.00
August Bill   28.50
August Lee   37.50
Sept Lee   52.50
Oct Lee   55.00
Nov Lee & Slaughter   50.00
Dec Slaughter   45.00
    total 513.74
       
  Building barn   $1000.00
       

Machinery Hired

April 19 Bulldozing 137.5 on the old pasture field
May 13-20 Sawing lumber 500.00  
May 27 Sawing Lumber 500.00  
July Haybailing 400    
Sept 18 Haybailing 579 125.00 total for 979  
Sept Bulldozing 50.00  
Sept Haybailing 550 50.00  
  Spreading fertilizer 25.00  

Feeds bought   

Jan 7 Laying mash 100 4.00
Jan 21 Laying mash 200 8.00
Feb Laying mash 200 8.20
Jan Soybean meal 100 3.60
Mar Hay 1 1/2 ton 24.00
  Soybean meal   3.75
  Laying mash   4.10
Mar 25 Laying mash 200 8.10
April 12 Chick starter 100 4.65
April Chick starter 100 4.65
April Soybean meal 100 3.90
  Salt 60 .75
May Chicken feed 200 8.50
May Tankage 100 6.40
May Chicken feed 200 8.50
May Feed oats 100 3.95
May 30 Chicken feed 200 8.50
May 30 Tankage 100 6.00
June   300 12.75
    300 12.75
Aug Tankage 100 7.05
Oct Laying mash 800 36.00
Dec 19 Hog sup 300 15.00
  Dairy feed 100 4.5
    total 207.60

Fertilizer and lime bought

April 20   6 ton 150.00
May tobacco fertilizer 1 ton 38.00
May     111.80
May 22 3-9-6 fertilizer 1 1/2 ton 57.77
Nov     92.00
May 19 Lime 39 T 96.00
    total 458.57
Supplies Bought      
  Tobacco canvass 100 11.00
    total 11.00
Seeds and Plants bought      
Feb Fruit Trees 50 11.50
Feb Tobacco seed 1 pkt .75
Mar 20 Potatoes 100 4.30
  Ladino clover 12 25.80
  Alsike clover 5 2.33
  Inoculation   .35
Mar 23 Korean 109 6.50
May Sogrum seed 5 1.00
    total 52.53
Gas and Oil bought for farm use    
Jan Gas 30 gal 7.50
Feb Gas 100 " 25.50
March Gas & oil 200 53.60
April Gas & oil 100 29.80
May Gas & oil 100 30.05
June     25.00
July     30.00
Aug     30.35
Sept     25.00
Oct     25.00
    total 281.80

Repair and Maintenance

Machinery and Equipment    
Feb Welding trailer 2.50
May Work on tractor 45.43
Aug Welding plow 2.00
Dec Tractor repair - (Froze) 50.00
  Part on - $225.00  
Buildings and fences    
Feb Lumber - Hog house screens 12.00
  Roofing    "         " 9.00
  Nails        "         " 3.00
  Roofing  - Tenant house 3.60
  Bolts .70
  Roofing - Tenant Chick H. 5.70
Dec Roof for garage 82.00
  total 215.93

Other farm expenses

  Feeder Cattle Bought  
April 10 1 100.00
Dec 19 Taxes 81.13
Feb Veterinary and Medicine 22.50
Apr 15 Baby chicks bought 28.00
     
  Electricity - January 4.45
    4.95
    4.50
    4.00
    3.55
    8.62
    4.50
    4.25
    4.35
    3.70
    4.55
                       December 5.15
     
  Farm share of electricity 20.00
     
  Telephone - January  
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  Total telephone 8.50
  Farm share of telephone 6.00

Capital Goods Bought

Feb 6 1 Sow 75.00
Jan 1 Tractor, plow,  Diff. 477.50
Feb Seed sewer 5.60
Mar Post hole digger 2.75
May 26 Ball of 477.50 paid $200.  
Sept 6 28 ewes & buck 856.35
Dec 19 Roofing for Gar 82.00
Dec 19 Mower 100.00
Dec 13 1 Gurnsey calf 25.00
Dec 19 1 Holstine calf 25.00
Apr 10 4 Holstine calf 400.00
Oct 1 Boar 55.00

Stock

75.00
856.35
25.00
25.00
400.00
55.00
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1436.35

Machinery

477.50
5.60
2.75
100.00
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585.85

Roof   82.00

Livestock  Production Records

Cow name Age Date of calving Sex of calf
Spot (heifer) 1 yr    
                Bred - Oct 7   Nov 28  
Brennel cow     Sept 10   July 8 heffer
Old cow           Sept 17      
Geneseng calf   Dec 6 heffer
Holestine   Dec 15 heffer
My cow   Oct 15 heffer
Black Gessery   Nov 15 bull
White Gessery   Nov 1 heffer (bred)
       
Hogs Date Farrowed & number Number raised to weaning Date sow bred again
Duroc sow March 1                  11 10 June 10
Duroc sow Oct 6                      13    


Sheep

Date ram turned with flock    Oct 10
Number of ewes , beginning of the year  40