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Letters from Virginia to Alma Friends in Michigan
Mrs. F. Rutland writes from Blackstone Virginia to Alma Michigan readers describing two years in Virginia since February, farm life on a fifty acre farm, crop yields including corn, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, sorghum, and tobacco, climate, water, holidays, and visits with Alma friends.
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Tade
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J. W. Glass
F. Rutland
Nelson Lilley
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