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Farmer has cheese, butter, beef, pork, or any kind of grain 

 or cattle, it will bring the money at a large price. Cheese, 

 9 cts., butter 21 to 22, wheat $1.75 to $2., barley $1.00, corn 

 87 cts., rye the same, oats 50 cts., etc. etc. I shall try to 

 collect together $400. some time next month to send to you. 

 What interest and payments are coming to me will not come 

 before March to April, and may not then, although I shall 

 expect some. 



Had you not better look to some professorship in some 

 college or seminary ? If you wish to do so, can you not obtain 

 a situation through some of your literary friends, or through 

 Luther Tucker or somebody ? You speak of writing "to Easton 

 about opening a school of Agrl. Science in connection with the 

 Lowville Academy, he has not received it. If such a plan 

 would pay, I should be well pleased with it, if not, it should 

 be let alone. The Munich Rose was received in your October 

 letter, for which your Mother is grateful and we all well 

 pleased. You may have orders for more of the same sort. 



I believe you do not wish to impoverish your friends. I 

 am willing to deal out for the benefit of my children as much 

 as I can prudently, when the prospect is for their good rather 

 than their greatness, though none can be truly great unless 

 they are truly good. You rightly say you shall not any more 

 be a student, I suppose, in the sense you are now. I sup- 

 pose you always mean to be a learner. Traveling anywhere 

 is expensive, especially in Europe. If you can get something 

 for correspondence, it will help so much. . . . 



Abby and Annah say they want to see you. They send 

 their love. They write afternoons, study Colburn's Arith- 

 metic and Smith 's Geography. Should you live to come home 

 again to see them, they will have altered much. May Heaven 

 bless you spiritually and temporally is the prayer of your 

 affectionate parents. 



Abby and Annah were twin sisters, eight years old, 

 the youngest of the family. 



