Characteristics of the Times and Seasons

Journal kept by Richard Spire from 1894-1918 in which he recorded his observations on weather, crop yields and prices, land values, and a few comments on presidential elections and World War I. Richard Spire farmed in Sheridan Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, from 1872-1910. He and his wife, Isadora Hatfield, had eight children. He was engaged in several livestock buying partnerships and was a large feeder of cattle. In 1899 he was elected assessor. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #56.

Title	Characteristics of the Times and Seasons
author	Spire, Richard, 1853-1924
Index Date	1894
Date Issued	1894-1918
Publisher	Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Provenance	Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
note	Pages 9-21 of the journal are not written on. The entries for pages 30, 31, 32, and 33 are out of order with page 32 being the beginning of the entry followed by page 33 then page 30 and concluding on page 31. Pages 108-119 are not written on. Pages 120-193 also were not written on and were not scanned.
Topic	Farms -- Prices
Topic	Weather
Topic	Crops and climate
Topic	Crop yields
Topic	Crops -- Prices
Geographic	Sheridan (Poweshiek County, Iowa : Township)
Keyword	1910s
Keyword	Sheridan
Keyword	Agriculture
Keyword	Weather
Keyword	1890s
Keyword	1900s
Related Item	Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item	Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Related Item	Digital Grinnell
Genre	journal
Language	English
Identifier (local)	grinnell:12351
Identifier (hdl)	http://hdl.handle.net/11084/12351
Access Condition	Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Type of Resource	text