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you are having a pleasant time visiting your childhoods home. We're I rich I would purchase your old homestead for you as you love it so well. It is a pleasant spot. I thank you for the few words of affection you expressed in your letter for our prairie home. You like it because it likes me & because I am attached to it. I wish it had other attractions for you. I am afraid I shall get disgusted with it this summer farming down there without my family & boarding with the dutch on with {Morieal.} I wish we had rented it all last fall but it is too late now for this year. I must make the most I can out of it towards supporting us. I hardly known what to do with it but I think I shall had better go down & see to getting the grain sowed & then try & get some one to plough the corn land for me & then go down & help plant the corn & get some one to take care of the corn & then go down & attend to the harvest, haying etc. In this way I shall be down then about half of the time from this time to Oct. 1st. I shall have probably enough to busy me here the other half of the time to the first of July or Augt. If I was there all the time I could get along without help after I got my spring grow in with the exception of harvest