Aug 1
st, 2 & 3 I spent the time Harvesting wheat. I have 8 Acres of wheat
and I think the best Taos wheat I have ever raised I ploughed my
land deep & put on 120
lbs of seed wheat to the Acre I w
hashed the wheat
clean skum off all light wheat then limed it & sowed it draged the
land thoroughly then rolled it & I think I will have 50 Bushels of wheat
good & clean without smut to the acre we had a hard rain storm in the evening
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garden & premises Blacksmith shop &c then visited the gave him an outline of the Mormon war with the
United States & a history of affairs for the Last 5 years in he is
writing & publishing Extensively he is a free noble minded man he has
traveled so etensively that he has cast of[f] that cloak of prejudice and
superstition which most men have against all who do not embrace ther
own political & religious faith. He will tell the truth about all men &
things as far as he can obtain it I gave him an invitation to call upon
me. We received the Eastern mail. We obtained papers & I got one
[FIGURE] good Letter from Capt who spoke of his travels in visiting
the Saints in the Eastern country inhe wrote in a vary good spirit
