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5th page Three or four more affairs of thrilling interest which have happened or are in progress I might relate but the stories are too long or perhaps you are already thinking. - There are difficulties in the church here of a strange and startling character. The people here have a sort of free, reckless, dashing, and daring way of doing things, unlike the staid, organized, judicious management of things at the east - the narrow and rocky vallies of New England are exchanged for the wild and boundless prairie. -- Business is very lively now, wheat begins to pour in, the time for reaping comes earlier than in N.E. most frequently it is sufficiently dry to be carried directly to the barn from the standing field. A rich man who came here when all was new, had a field of wheat, one enclosure - of one hundred and sixty acres. Reaping is done by a machine worked by horses on the trot, from fifteen to twenty acres in a day. In Michigan, as I was told by a clergyman from there, who preached here a week ago, they have a machine which at once, reaps, thrushes, and puts the wheat into bags. I enquired if the bags were tied up also, but he thought not; probably they are attached to the machine and taken off as fast as filled. It seems the drought has been severe your way, as well in Vermont and New York. A lady from Vermont represents every thing as parched up, crops to a great extent cut off, in some instances fields of grain burned down into the ground from fires in the woods. There have been frequent showers here during the season and the most delightful weather I ever in my life experienced, pure invigorating air, cool but mild breezes

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