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up into our room for us but my board costs nearly half a dollar a week more than last summer which will make some difference in my funds in the course of the winter.

  I enjoy much however my independent way of living having no more to do with the family than if in a hotel. The farmers about here grown rich and they do so by raising cattle and sheep and making butter and cheese more than by the hard labor of tilling the ground and selling grain. I should suppose you might turn your farm more into pasture and either sell beef at Dover etc. or drive a 'drove' every fall to Bangor and take the money easier than to dig it out of the lands. I see not why you and Almeda too might not make it profitable to make cheese extensively it would require as little outgo as any thing and could be kept until it could be marketted. I see not why you cannot lay up money by farming so as to live easy, paint and finish your house, put on blinds etc. as well as the men here grow rich who have not according to my knowledge any facilities that might not be made available there though this is a good country I like Maine better especially the climate. Please write me soon and express your opinion upon the thought I have broached and enlighten my ignorance thereupon if you are able. Affect'ly Sister Anne.