F. C. PUTNAM 
W T. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM, JR. 
MAIL ORDERS TAKEN 
FOR 
DRESSED CHICKENS. DUCKS 
GEESE. FRESH EGGS 
AND OTHER FARM PRODUCTS 
Tfntermourit jFarm 
"THE MAIL ORDER FARM" 
INTERMOUNT FARM SAUSAGE 
LAKE CUSHMAN, WASH I l\i GTQf! • 
Mch. 13, 1915. 
Dear Mr. Deane:- 
This is a typical Puget Sound winter day. Raining 
and disagreeable, but the grass ia green and the pussy willows are 
almost gone and the Trilliums are out in the sheltered places. 
We have had a wonderful -inter, no snow and a lot of cold weather, 
by cold I mean as low as 20, and that id cold for this country. 
Yes, we ordinarily have good weather itt the summer, and 
we did not have a bad day for three months, but it was so dry that 
the jives made a great (ffeal of smoke, and we longed for rain. 
This is the firm of W. T. Putnam & Sons. I do not know 
if I told ycu, but last fall we had some particularly fine corn,and 
on Labor bay when we had a crowd, several guests asked me to get 
them some to take home, and othere seeing it, wanted some too. 
That a. m. I packed up some 300 ears for these people, and took 
weekly orders for a lot more, and having a lot of chix and dux 
left over we shipped these too, and have done so all winter, and 
this coming year we are planning to do a greatly enlarged business. 
With the large acquaintance we have it is an easy matter to get 
customers, the only difficulty so far has been to get eggs through 
the Seattle P. 0. unscrambled. We ship the chix ancLdmx, these are 
the trade spellings, also guinea fowl, turkeys, pork loins and saus¬ 
age and some of the finer vegetables. We also have Chinese Pheas¬ 
ants, and now aril then can send our friends a few trout. We make 
a pigs shoulders up into sausage, and sell the loins, and smoke 
the hams and bacon, and try out the lard. In this way we nearly 
