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year especially. but Pa will tell you his arrangement and I expect will meet your approval. The cotton looks beautiful And we will have a splendid stand. it looks a hundred per cent better now that it did this time last year, and a better season so far for cotton, I have never seen.
I hope and trust a large crop will be the reward of our labour. I have about fifty acres in corn, "Peabodies prolifre" it is looking splendidly some waste high on an average about knee high. I am eating every kind of vegitable and have been for some time. I have a fine mess of strawberries very near every day. we will have any quantity of figs, grapes, and at the Russ place peaches, plums, and one or two trees filled with [nectrons]. it is getting late and I am bout starting for the Bay so I will close and by next mail will write you more. Give my best love to all And rember me to all of my acquaintences.
With much love from
Your affectionate son
Sami Jackson
ALS. THi.