August 6, 1935
"Just a month since making the last entry and we have had two floods since then. This last one that started or came to its highest on the 4th of August on the Walhonding got across the center of my land and backed up on the corn considerably but did more good than harm by leaving silt on the ground. Such a season of rains I never remember of. Rain every day and a humid condition of the air that remains the same whether cool or hot. No end of it in sight.
Rained this morning and a heavy shower tonight after I got home from the farm - still thundering. Have not been able to thresh - wheat sprouting in shock. If not threshed in a few days will not be worth anything.
My melons have been flooded four times. Watermelons all killed but the muskmelons are coming on where they were not entirely washed out. Corn that was under water has made a surprising recovery. After lying flat on the ground it straightened up and now you would never know that it had been down. Where it was covered by the water for two or three days, it dried. When it straightened up, the center whorl of leaves was full of mud. This broke over nearly double but the mud dried and gradually grew out of the center so you could pull it out easily when it was forced out by growth. Some of the corn has tasseled.
I marvel at its fight to come to maturity. Tonight, I brought home sweet corn from my new ground patch on the farm. This corn had been under water also.
I sold Mrs. Tom Collins five ton of hay if we can find a dry time to harvest it. The second cutting is over-ripe now.
Henry and Gene are with us for week's vacation. They have a cute little pup with them - Lucky.
On July 4 the river gauge was near 13 feet. Today it stood at 10.1 feet."
August 6, 1935
D.C. Richard's Journal
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