Fairfield July 4^th

 

            Dear Sister      I got your card last night sorry to hear you had been sick maybee I was not disapointed when you did not come. we had all made big reckoning on seeing you the 21^st Lee went to town thinking you would be there and when you was not he made araingments with the land-lord to bring you out when you come 

 

we are all well. just finished harvesting yesterday have had some verry dry weather the last of may and the first of June it hirt the wheat badly especialy spring wheat is getting dry again we have pleanty of new potatoes beans and onions some peas they were to early the most of them the dry weather struck them and they did not amount to any thing new potatoes are worth 75 cts a bushel will not have but a verry fiew apples this year had a hailstorm just when they / were in blossom it hirt them badly have got to go to cultivating corn a part of it has not been cultivated yet have got three nice colts this year had three calvs and sold two of them

 

Saturday morning 10^th all well but Wesley he has a bad cold has been verry warm all this week Wm is going to Russell to day wish I could be with you a while 'till you got to feeling able to do your work if we were closer to gather I would help / you many a time. are having poor luck with our chickens this summer we caught a big rat the other night the first one I have seen in Kan they did not come here till this summer have caught 7 young woolvs this summer.

excuse this as I am in a hurry. love to all

M E Weeks

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