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Nevada Iowa 12 17 1880.

Thanks for your [illegible] I will stock
some of the water with the growth you
describe.

There is another growth that
it is found in some of the ponds on Skunk
Bottom that grows to great length and
in immense quantities that I think I
will get. If it is a fish food it will
be of great use. I [illegible] not known
what it is. I see that [illegible] gives
[illegible] as the name of the
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