planting it with corn and sowing it with Wheat.
you will then have a supply of provisions more
certain to depend upon than hunting

Brothers we were pleased to see your stock
of cattle increased. The rich bottom on the
river will yield plenty for them to live on
in the Summer Season, but as your win-
ters are long and cold it will require some
thing for them to live on in Winter.
Now the white people keep thin cattle
on hay, straw and cornfodder, straw
you cannot get until you raise wheat or
other grain, the rich bottoms if they ware
put in order would produce a great deal of
hay, but for an immediate supply, we
think as soon as you gather your corn
you should cut the stalks close at the
ground bind them in small bundles
and put them in stacks as our
young men do they would keep the
cattle part of the cold weather

Brothers We are pleased to see a
a quantity of new fence made this sum-
mer near where our young men live