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1880
corn & wheat -^not good crop - hot summer -

1881   16 acres.
corn & wheat - potato destroyed by grasshoppers - no place else than on his place - Had 16 apples [[?]]
3 horses. raised them for a horse his father had -
2 cows - one from agent 2 yrs ago issue before land & cow has a heifer.
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1 pig earned it by going on an errand.
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Had chicken & ducks ate them up 15 " [[ditto for chicken]]  12 " [[ditto for ducks]]
always had chicken since he had land
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Has hatchet he bought
Got spade hoe & plow from Gov't
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Wagon from Gov't - 5 yrs ago.
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Built frame house 5 yrs ago.  It is a dugout - he made it 3 yrs ago.  [[strikeout]]tilt the land in [[?]] [[/strikeout]] 
 

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tklindsey: have used scrabble wrd finder databases to to search for [?} words no success.