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Frandrien Hissomi July 31, 1937. the NARA TRUMAN M Dear Harry:- I think I promised to write another letter that would prove a little better reading than the last but I have been pretty husy even since and nothing real excit ing has happened either. They began threshing my wheat gesterday and its even worse than I thought it would be. Vinian went with me own to Photin City to the elevator are there and they agreed to take what I had and would buy it now n hold A at we decided that was the thing to do if it graded any a cent a lnshel for as long as I cared to hold it, 20 where mean a docunt grade. Will as we came home from the city yesterday An. Schmidt said her had been thesting since tin 'o lock and had throshed less than two lundred lushel and it was grading forty there pounds to the lushil and offered my sixty cents a hishel for mine for feed for his caws. We came to the house and asked what they would pay at the elevator at Martin City and they offered ship also, so we decided as it was much a perr grade of

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