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in small orchards for home use. Some apples are less thrifty than in the Ozark region, but peaches are more abundant and are usually loaded with fine fruit. At Chandler teams were hauling loads of peaches to the station for shipping in cars. We tried them and found them delicious. They sold at 8Ȼ a basket.

A good many young orchards were seen of peach & pear trees in cotton fields.

The soil is mainly heavy red clay, very rich and productive, [[strikethrough]]but[[/strikethrough]] of crops & vegetation but not of mammals. No signs of any wild species were seen until a sandy strip of bottoms was crossed at Spencer where Geomys hills were first seen.  Not a jack rabbit or even a cottontail was seen.

The first Scissortail was seen near Red Fork & they were common the rest of the way. For other bird & plant notes see note book.

Reached [[underlined]]Oklahoma City[[/underlined]] at 7 P.M. — went to Hotel [[Raboch?]], a very satisfactory place

Transcription Notes:
"Geomys hills" refers to mounds created by pocket gophers. (note submitted by first transcriber)