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Bloomfield Knox Co Neb
Dec 4 91

Mr Chas E Bessey
Lincoln Nebr

Dear Sir: I had had a little correspondence with you in regard to alfalfa (mine July 18 - yours July 25-1890) I followed your advice and sowed 200 lbs on 90 acres obtaining a splendid stand, but soon after the alfalfa made its appearance so did the pig weeds at the ratio of 10 pig weeds to one alfalfa, several advised plowing the whole under but I allowed all to grow together until weeds were about 12 or 15 inches high then mowed close to ground did not rake as weeds dried up to nearly