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Had bad luck with the spring wheat - It got a nice start and grew & looked finely till it was almost fully grown and in the bloom - Then came a terrible hard blow - The wind bent it to the ground & most of it laid so & did not straighten up for some time & then the winds flattened it worse than ever The result was it did not head out or mature near as well & it being lodged so badly Mr G. our renter cut only about half of it I worried over it & then I told the man if he did not cut anymore I would save what I could - So I got a scythe & an old sickle and cut a little every day changed works & got it hauled & stoked over beside Mr Walton's stacks & I wouldn't wonder if there is 12 or 15 bushels - And I have got another little batch of wheat You see Mr. W's fall wheat did not do well - good deal winter killed and

[written along the left-hand side of the page] Hope I may sometime - hope you will come out all right & get all your pay

[written along the right-hand side of the page] I think that renter has acted mean - hope you will not lose to bad