DIY History | Transcribe | Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries | Correspondence to Ellen Mowrer Miller in Boone County, Iowa from family in Pennsylvania, Iowa and South Dakota, 1865-1890

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Correspondence to Ellen Mowrer Miller in Boone County, Iowa from family in Pennsylvania, Iowa and South Dakota, 1865-1890

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year. There is quite a demand for 
for native seed corn price ranging from $1.50 to $ 2. a bushel. The plum 
trees are covered with blossoms they are 
so sweet that one would wish they would last longer -The apple 
trees gooseberries currant bushes are full of blossom and if all is favorable 
for their growth will have plenty of them - Our garden is nearly all made
The lettuce onions and radishes are up and growing nicely - We have 
fourteen little chicks and will have more soon. - There is quite an  excitement here between capitalists 
and land hoders  they think they can find coal, there are several prospective
rigs and have been all spring but it 
will be sometime before it will be known whither there is coal or not
The railroads have their share of excitement 
there is one to be built from

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year. There is quite a demand for for native seed corn price ranging from $1.50 to $ 2. a bushel. The plum trees are covered with blossoms they are so sweet that one would wish they would last longer -The apple trees gooseberries currant bushes are full of blossom and if all is favorable for their growth will have plenty of them - Our garden is nearly all made The lettuce onions and radishes are up and growing nicely - We have fourteen little chicks and will have more soon. - There is quite an excitement here between capitalists and land hoders they think they can find coal, there are several prospective rigs and have been all spring but it will be sometime before it will be known whither there is coal or not The railroads have their share of excitement there is one to be built from