May 15 & 18, 1938
May 18, 1938
"Still wet weather and cool. Ground thoroughly soaked. Slowing down corn planting. About half of ours planted. Planted potatoes, corn and lima beans and set out a few plants in an almost mucky, sandy loam. The first limas are up but slowed down by cool wetness. Also planted flat dutch cabbage in north plot and danish ballhead a few feet south.
It takes plenty of sunshine to make the farm glorious - "sunny, hot sand" as Mary Ellen charmingly says it. Some animal dug up part of my replant melon seed and hulled the kernel out, eating it."
May 15, 1938
"Yesterday morning I started to work in the rain; now at 9:00 this evening it is still rain - a drizzling cold one. Newly planted things are not growing. Ground is spongy, wet deep down where it a few days ago was dry and hard. I went to the farm in the rain today and replanted melons that were a poor stand because of the dryness and frost.
Frost killed the new growth on the wild bottom grape vines. It was reported that the hickory and walnut bloom is frosted too. I notice the hackberry foliage is dead. I examined the wheat this afternoon. I could see no apparent damage unless the abundance of dead leaves about the lower part of the plant is an indication. Sloshing around in wet galoshes was not at all pleasant yet I found it interesting."
D.C. Richard's Journal
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