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Mr Snow still lives with us. He has rented about half of my cultivated land this year. Part of the remainder is in winter wheat. The rest I am going to work. I have been having? within a few days two colts. One is three years old, the other a yearling - both mares. For the first I paid $771/2; for the other $40. The three-year-old will do to work and ride some this summer. It has been very dry with us this spring. We had a good rain the 6th of March - since then hardly any. The prospect for a wheat crop is very poor. Now a word on business. After buying the colts I find my funds running rather low. I might possibly get along, but I want to be prepared so I can buy a cow if I find one to suit, to replace one I killed last winter. I have (30) thirty dollars belonging to Thomas D. Lewis, which has been paid