1911 06 05 Martha Andrews to Samuel Andrews

Seneca Mo June 5^th 1911

Dear Uncle

I will now try to write you.  It is very warm 98 in the shade but a good

 breeze blowing.  We have had a very peculiar spring had not enough rain from

 the last of April till the night of May 29^th to lay the dust but the evening

 of the 29^th it rained a good shower and again the night of the 30^th   it
 rained so the ground was soaked but we need it again for potatoes.  The

 drouth cut the berry crop off short.  They said there never was such a good

 prospect for the berries as this year but there were  only fifteen car load
sent out but   some fields revived somewhat after the rain and they are still
 sending a few by express.  The average price paid was $2. 25 per crate here
 on the track if will make a good thing for the farmers anyway.
 Cherries are a good crop and selling at $2. 75 per crate.  black berries
will be a big crop as well as all other fruit

Wheat harvest has begun and it looks like oat harvest would crowd it

 easily, corn is small but farmers generally took advantage of the dry weather

 to kill weeds and now it will soon be up with the season.

 my farming is very satisfactory so far I have the best garden in this end of town.

 I planted a pint of peas and picked 10 ½ gallon.  have sweet corn all tassled

 and will have tomatoes before the 4^th of July.  my different kinds of

 corn I think will be the thing.  They are all growing as fast as I could wish.
one kind did not come up good I think the seed was poor but I put millet in where

 there was space enough and where there was only a few hills missing

 I put cow peas so I am keeping the ground full. I pulled the pea vines

 last Thursday and cleaned the ground off and  sowed millet and Sat fore

noon I fixed a patch of ground down on the lots where the house burned and planted it

 to cow peas and it was dreadful hot and as you know surrounded

 with trees so I got but little air and I guess I got too much of a good

 thing for I  haven’t been able to do much since.

 I have been feeling quite well ever since I have been living out doors.  but

my cough still stays by me but I do not cough as much as I did.

 The health of the country is good.  There has been several deaths this

 spring among very old people.  An old man a friend of Pas had a stroke

 of paralysis early in Sept and has been as helpless as a baby and his mind

almost entirely gone ever since till he died two weeks ago.  Mrs. Peterson

 has been sick since Christmas has not been to town since the 1^st

of Jan till two weeks ago he brought her down to her daughters and ate

dinner and took her home.

  She phoned to Mrs. Grinn last Friday to know what had become of me and

 said if I loved her as I ought I would come out to see her.  I certainly

 must go soon.  The cow is about dry and when I get her dry I can go better.
 Wont have to hurry home in the heat of the day.

Where in Ark does Ralph live.  Does D K still live in Lexington.  Now I

will close.  Write soon.

                                                                                                                        Dott