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Butter churn, property of Hannah Lee Selby, c.1870.
Annice Selby of Dunham, Quebec, contributed to the family income by selling butter and pigs to neighbours and at the Cowansville market. The following are excerpts from her diary, 1934:
May 12. Churned butter and ploughed in morning, cleaned bucket room, cleaned leaves from flower beds.
May 19. Got up at 4 o'clock. Emily and I churned and ironed. Put out pigs and put up hen yard.
May 21. Churned all morning, cleaned house, baked and sewed.
May 25. Churned all morning. Finished planting potatoes and picked
stones off ground. Harrowed and sowed oats and peas and made garden and fixed boiler.
May 28. Churned all morning. I washed and coloured 3 dresses and 2 aprons, painted porch, swept house.
May 30. I baked, picked stones, furrowed out turnip rows, took pigs and butter to Cowansville, worked on corn field.
(Missisquoi Historical Society Collections)
Annice Selby of Dunham, Quebec, contributed to the family income by selling butter and pigs to neighbours and at the Cowansville market. The following are excerpts from her diary, 1934:
May 12. Churned butter and ploughed in morning, cleaned bucket room, cleaned leaves from flower beds.
May 19. Got up at 4 o'clock. Emily and I churned and ironed. Put out pigs and put up hen yard.
May 21. Churned all morning, cleaned house, baked and sewed.
May 25. Churned all morning. Finished planting potatoes and picked
stones off ground. Harrowed and sowed oats and peas and made garden and fixed boiler.
May 28. Churned all morning. I washed and coloured 3 dresses and 2 aprons, painted porch, swept house.
May 30. I baked, picked stones, furrowed out turnip rows, took pigs and butter to Cowansville, worked on corn field.
(Missisquoi Historical Society Collections)