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The domage done by Gopher
they doos[ink smeared] damage the meadows
in two ways

First they throw up
large mound witch makes
the meadows rough
and hard to mow

2 and they destroy they
roots of the grass

they injure the osage hedges
the desroy the Potatoes
I think that they hardley
ever dhourt grain

yours in haste
Sam

P S if you will send some
Alcohol to me I will collect
for you

I start for Kansas [illegible] the
first of May