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1866-11-04 Page 1
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Philadelphia Nove the 4 1866 Dear brother Ite has ben a longe time Since I wrote to I Would Write you a few lines to day Wee are a Well as usal farnus has gote thare harvest all Don And Aall of thar potatas All Dug Dan Hicks has Shingel Over the Peek House this fall I have begun to plough I have gote Some 30 Acres to plough In All I Shall plough Some 8 or 10 Acres Next Spring Our Cowes made from May 15 to September 15 908,09 Clear of All expenses except 6 Dollars fer Cheese that Wee eate up Ate home Wee Sould 275,00 Dollars of butter In the Spring And Shall Sell 6 or 8 hundurd Waight more this fall butter Is werthe from 35 to 38 Cents Wis us now porke Is werthe fer 11 to 14 Dollar per hundurd Cowes Is werth from 50 to 60 Dollars I Supose you are haveing A hote time A bout [lection] A boute these Days father has gote his Hoopes All Packed ready to Send to New york he has gote A boute 6 Or 7 Hundurd pound he Drided them And Packed them him Self farmes have to feed Cowes now feed is very Shorte here Wheat Is Worthe 2,70 per bushel Corne Is worthe 1,13 One Dollars And thirteen Cents Wee had A Warm And Dry October to Day the weather Is Could And Dry to Day Wee Have A friend minister from Weaste Lake In Canddy her Name Is Lyzy brewer boys Donte
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Philadelphia Nove the 4 1866 Dear brother Ite has ben a longe time Since I wrote to I Would Write you a few lines to day Wee are a Well as usal farnus has gote thare harvest all Don And Aall of thar potatas All Dug Dan Hicks has Shingel Over the Peek House this fall I have begun to plough I have gote Some 30 Acres to plough In All I Shall plough Some 8 or 10 Acres Next Spring Our Cowes made from May 15 to September 15 908,09 Clear of All expenses except 6 Dollars fer Cheese that Wee eate up Ate home Wee Sould 275,00 Dollars of butter In the Spring And Shall Sell 6 or 8 hundurd Waight more this fall butter Is werthe from 35 to 38 Cents Wis us now porke Is werthe fer 11 to 14 Dollar per hundurd Cowes Is werth from 50 to 60 Dollars I Supose you are haveing A hote time A bout [lection] A boute these Days father has gote his Hoopes All Packed ready to Send to New york he has gote A boute 6 Or 7 Hundurd pound he Drided them And Packed them him Self farmes have to feed Cowes now feed is very Shorte here Wheat Is Worthe 2,70 per bushel Corne Is worthe 1,13 One Dollars And thirteen Cents Wee had A Warm And Dry October to Day the weather Is Could And Dry to Day Wee Have A friend minister from Weaste Lake In Canddy her Name Is Lyzy brewer boys Donte
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