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1869-08-20 Page 2

we will have an average crop for Tennesse, but nothing like a good crop for this Country; if they don't make from 30 to 60 bushels of corn to the acre they have light crops, sometimes eighty bushels per acre, and under twenty bushels of  wheat per acre is a small crop; oats is generally a shure crop, I believe last season and this also, the oats would have averaged double per acre what the best would in Tennessee; corn sells for 50 to 75 cents per bushel I don't know what makes it so high for there is plenty in the Country some men has a thousand bushels of old corn now the prospect for the new crop was very bad about harvest which run up the old corn; wheat sells from 60 cts to one dollar according to quality; it has been so wet that people has not thrashed very much of their wheat yet; I fear it will be injured in the stack, the potatoe crop is very good. I bought a peck of potatoes last spring they call them the early whites; we eat nearly half of them before we dug them and had nearly four bushels left that I thought was a prety good turn out but that won't come up with yours, I don't know whether there is any of your kind in this country or not there is several kinds,  Peach Blows white and blue mechanic the duch Potatoe, Early white, Song red So we have about one bushel of the blue Mechanic planted they are a good potatoe if they all turn out as good as where we have been using I believe the bushel would make 25 bu they are worth 30 cts per bushel oats 30 cts bacon from 18 to 20 per pound stock hogs 5 to seven cents per lb there is a market for fat hogs every month for nine months in

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we will have an average crop for Tennesse, but nothing like a good crop for this Country; if they don't make from 30 to 60 bushels of corn to the acre they have light crops, sometimes eighty bushels per acre, and under twenty bushels of wheat per acre is a small crop; oats is generally a shure crop, I believe last season and this also, the oats would have averaged double per acre what the best would in Tennessee; corn sells for 50 to 75 cents per bushel I don't know what makes it so high for there is plenty in the Country some men has a thousand bushels of old corn now the prospect for the new crop was very bad about harvest which run up the old corn; wheat sells from 60 cts to one dollar according to quality; it has been so wet that people has not thrashed very much of their wheat yet; I fear it will be injured in the stack, the potatoe crop is very good. I bought a peck of potatoes last spring they call them the early whites; we eat nearly half of them before we dug them and had nearly four bushels left that I thought was a prety good turn out but that won't come up with yours, I don't know whether there is any of your kind in this country or not there is several kinds, Peach Blows white and blue mechanic the duch Potatoe, Early white, Song red So we have about one bushel of the blue Mechanic planted they are a good potatoe if they all turn out as good as where we have been using I believe the bushel would make 25 bu they are worth 30 cts per bushel oats 30 cts bacon from 18 to 20 per pound stock hogs 5 to seven cents per lb there is a market for fat hogs every month for nine months in