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Stoughton July 29th, 1932

Dear Doris We are having muggy weather. the air is a little better than it was. but its warm yet. Harris has just been in to share Pa. (10'clock). I have been out in the field after berries the black berries are small & seedy owing to dry weather I suppose. I got a bowl full & they will taste good for supper. there was a good crop of them coming on but the drought spoilt them, a very few that grew in the shade, were their usual size. the bushes are springing up on the wall between us & Pete McGarvey & at the lower end of the piece where the trees were cut beyond the grove on Geo McGarveys side. later on I mean to cut those down, one years growth, a bush sythe [[scythe]] would be the thing to use. it needs a man to do those things properly. this place would grow up to be a wilderness in a very short time. & it takes but a short time to prevent it. one only has to take thing in time.