Letter from Ozem Thompson Woodruff, 20 January 1856
Dear, Brother
it is alonge time sense I have heard
from you buy pen our family
health at presente is generly good
at presente we have [hale] 7 children we
have but 3 liveinge 2 girls and but
one buoy aliveinge the ceasons are
very cingular at presente the summer
very wet the winter very stormy with
snow and very cold iff I should
conclud to leave this cection off cuntury
I wish you to give me information
what parte off the weste it would be beste
to settle in produse has been very ^high^ but
is now on afull pork is said to be worth
14 dollars pr barrel beef from 5 to 6 dollars
pr hundred corn 8 7 1/2 cts pr bushels oates
40 cts pr bushels potatoes 31 1/2 cts pr
bushels apples 3 7 1/2 cts pr bushels dryed
112 1/2 cts pr bushels butter 20 cts pr pound
laste year we think we had 3500 bushels
off apples this year aboute 300 bushels
broak down some off our orchard there
has been a heaveey failyer off late
in consequence off butter and produse
afallinge off late
