Dear Brother and FatherI
received your last letters and was
glad to here that you are all
well. Ms. [D]Electta Woodruff
was confined [Hous] 28 she has
a daughter hir healthe iss very
poor in concequence off hir cile
and stomack itis the liver comp
hir cile smells bad we have 3 livein
children one buoy and 2 girls laste
summer was the dryest ever know
laste Sept the grasshoppers destro
moste Everythinge the winter very rain
open a littele snow a greatetest off snowhay from 10 to 12 dollars pr tone
pork 7 pr hundred beef from 4 to 5 dol
flower 5 dollars per barrel wheat 100
per bushels corn 75 cts per bushels oats 37 21/2
cts potatoes no roat 31 1/2 cts butter has
been 20 cts per pound is 16 chickens 18 cts
eggs 15 cts per dozen fraut [fruit] very plenty
this season. I sold my apples last
fall at picken time in the orchard
at 37 1/2 cts per bushels they furnished
barrels dryed fruit last fall was
one dollar per bushels is now 1420 ^125^
cts Andrew and I went afishing afew
"Letter from Ozem Thompson Woodruff and Wilford Woodruff Jr., 21 January 1856," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/omzK